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A tweet from Joseph Coughlin caught my attention his morning: Boomers reaching older age? 2.8 M older adults in the US meet criteria for alcohol abuse and this number is expected to reach 5.7 M by 2020. My first thought was how tragic this is on so many levels; my second thought was, this is what happens when alcohol replaces purpose. Let’s unpack this…
Tragic Part
These numbers are most likely under-reported, my guess is they are much larger. Alcohol abuse is really suicide on the installment plan. The problem is ETOH doesn’t kill you acutely (unless you’re in an MVA)–it chips away a little bit at a time until there is an accumulative effect.
Here are a few of the accumulative effects: