When actual connection and entertainment is impossible to reach for a lot of people it makes sense these numbers would go up.

Reading this while doing my part

But if we virtually toast, does it still count as solo drinking?

Get the head sets on and play some vidiya games, you are now not an alcoholic

or this could be young women having a glass of wine while cooking dinner?

I appreciate virtual toasts, but it’s still solo drinking.

Cheers!

Girl band version of this song incoming.

Going forward I think people will be drinking om headset a lot more.

Proper social drinking out is a luxury now.

So either weekends at friends or friends on headsets during week seems like where we are going

“Roughly 4 in 10 young adults who drink alcohol report drinking alone at least once in the past year,” said lead author Kasey Creswell, associate professor of psychology at Carnegie Mellon.

Only 4 in 10? 6 in 10 young adults who drink alcohol never have a beer or glass of wine on a cozy evening in? I would have expected it to be the other way around.

Bars are too expensive where I am to be a traditional social alcoholic

The number doesn’t say that much. Obviously it’s among drinkers, but I think the more interesting percentage would be people who only drink alone.

Well I’m drinking with friends in spirit.

Yeah, wait, what? Thats what this whole report is based around? I fucking crack a beer after a hard day sometimes and just sit on my back porch - thats not problematic behavior!

Yeah, the exact question they’re studying is:

“When you used alcohol during the last year, how often did you use it in each of the following situations?…When you were alone.” Response options were 1 = “Not at all” 2 = “A few of the times” 3 = “Some of the times” 4 = “Most of the times” 5 = “Every time.”

And they’re comparing the “not at all” responses against all of the other ones. I understand they’re analyzing data that already exists, so they don’t get to go back in time and start asking a different question in 1977 when the survey begins, but I’m not sure how useful this is to the current analysis without some qualifier like “When you had three or more drinks in one day.”

Yeah, sometimes I just want to savor some bourbon with tv. When I’m socializing I feel like a douche for swishing my sip and sniffing my glass. Which to be fair is pretty douchey but it brings out the subtleties

Whenever it comes to alcohol on here, the comment quality falls to TikTok levels. Only missing

Some people might not consider having one drink “drinking,” but, I don’t know exactly how this study was conducted.

Shits stressful out there. Lot of edge to take off.

Forgive me if I have an extra beer or two at night as the price of everything tripled

Yeah, going out is too expensive now, so of course I’ll fucking drink at home.

I am drinking with friends. They aren’t in my house but I know they are drinking too /s