{"id":62296,"date":"2017-08-09T16:28:51","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T20:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=62296"},"modified":"2017-08-10T06:01:41","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T10:01:41","slug":"ib-times-alcoholism-epidemic-more-than-1-in-8-americans-are-now-alcoholics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=62296","title":{"rendered":"(IB Times) Alcoholism epidemic: More than 1 in 8 Americans are now alcoholics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The largest change was in the most severe alcohol use category. The number of people who had received a diagnosis of alcoholism over the period of the two studies shot up by 49%, affecting 12.7% of the total population. This means 1 in 8 Americans received a diagnosis of alcoholism in the year before the latest survey.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The increases were unprecedented relative to the past two decades,&#8221; study author Bridget Grant of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Rockville, told IBTimes UK.<\/p>\n<p>Despite its prevalence, Americans are not sufficiently aware of the alcoholism crisis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The increases in alcohol related outcomes may have been overshadowed by increases in less prevalent drugs like marijuana and opioids, although all increases in alcohol and other substances are important.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.co.uk\/alcoholism-epidemic-more-1-8-americans-are-now-alcoholics-1634315\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The largest change was in the most severe alcohol use category. The number of people who had received a diagnosis of alcoholism over the period of the two studies shot up by 49%, affecting 12.7% of the total population. This<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=62296\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,86,209,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcoholdrinking","category-alcoholism","category-americau-s-a","category-health-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62297,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62296\/revisions\/62297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}