{"id":857979,"date":"2026-09-23T16:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T16:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/857979\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T16:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T16:58:09","slug":"americans-are-drinking-less-since-the-pandemic-began-but-one-group-bucks-the-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/857979\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans are drinking less since the pandemic began, but one group bucks the trend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"UKWN67BUSVBMPP5GWVHW3AMTQA\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Americans are drinking less for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began, but drinking levels are still higher than before the pandemic, according to a new <a href=\"https:\/\/news.keckmedicine.org\/us-alcohol-use-falls-for-first-time-since-the-covid-19-pandemic-but-remains-above-pre-pandemic-levels\/#\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/news.keckmedicine.org\/us-alcohol-use-falls-for-first-time-since-the-covid-19-pandemic-but-remains-above-pre-pandemic-levels\/#\">study<\/a> published this week.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"7NNTEJI5CRDUHOXO5GUEQFE2XM\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Researchers analyzed data from more than 114,000 U.S. adults from the National Health Interview Survey and found that any alcohol use declined by almost 2 percent, and heavy drinking fell by more than 8 percent from 2022 to 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Americans are drinking less for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began, but drinking levels are still&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":857980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[97],"class_list":["post-857979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=857979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/857980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}