Rethinking Ethanol During COVID
Updated: Apr 1, 2020
Only essential businesses are allowed to stay open in New York due to the COVID measures being put in place.
Did you know that includes liquor stores? One of the reasons given for liquor stores remaining open is to prevent the influx of hospital patients detoxing from withdrawal.
𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁’𝘀 𝗮𝗯𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗱.
Most people won’t have medical detox problems, and a lot of the issues around alcohol are due to 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀, not actual physiological issues.
If you expect to have problems when you stop drinking, then you will. If you don’t have expectations, then you won’t have medical detox problems unless you were pounding alcohol on a daily basis or have a rare underlying condition.
On top of that, one of the news anchors said that people are going to go crazy because they can’t leave their house to get a drink when stressed.
𝗗𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗲 𝗮 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲?
If your life is going to go downhill because you can’t get a drink, then this is a great time to reassess your relationship with alcohol.
This pandemic is a fantastic time to reassess our relationship with many autopilot behaviors. Alcohol abuse (not to the point of rare physiological dependence) is a virus in itself that has worn out its welcome in society.
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