Sober living

2020 U S. alcohol-involved deaths climbed by 26.6%, and drug overdose deaths by 30.6%

A recent study showed that increases in clinical diagnoses related to alcohol misuse, substance misuse, and suicide ideation/behavior between 2009 and 2018 largely mirror the broader mortality trends from these three causes (Brignone et al., 2020). The rise in drug poisoning deaths is well studied, and scholars have offered plausible explanations for this phenomenon. Explanations…

Bookkeeping

How To Find A Small Business Accountant

There are tons of administrative and tax-related regulations you must learn and comply with. This way, you won’t have to worry about manually creating each journal entry or posting it to the correct ledger account. QuickBooks is very popular, so any accountant you hire can likely work with it. While this may sound strange, there…

Sober living

Multi-ancestry study of the genetics of problematic alcohol use in over 1 million individuals

This offers an alternative explanation for the opposite genetic associations38, particularly in an older clinical sample in which a large proportion report current abstinence (reflected in an AUDIT-C score of 0). For this complex set of genetic associations to be useful in informing clinical recommendations on safe levels of alcohol consumption, it will be necessary…