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Alcohol Use During a Pandemic

Aug 5, 2020

As the world experiences the COVID-19 pandemic, public health officials have worried about the potential for problematic substance use including alcohol. On this episode, we talk with researchers Carolina Barbosa, Alexander Cowell, and Bill Dowd of RTI International about a survey effort to understand patterns of alcohol consumption in recent months in the U.S. [Note: audio quality is compromised at times on this episode due to remote recording.]