Drew Burney

If it's social drinking, light drinking here and there, those effects, that bounce back seems to be attenuated at least to some degree.

Can't completely eliminate it, I don't think.

But alcohol does – again, it does work in the short run.

Okay?

And it has like – it's probably the same mechanism as a lot of drugs that we'll eventually get to here.

This bounce back effect is actually strongest in the people who are most likely to engage in alcohol for anxiety, right?

Or use alcohol for their anxiety.

So –

shy, anxious people who are like socially anxious who use it tend to have the biggest bounce back here.

Okay.

There's some evidence that has for a long time pointed out, you know, you probably heard this for a long time, you know, having a glass of wine with dinner is good for you or one drink a day is good for you, whatever.

Honestly, probably not the case.

We're finding out more and more.

What happens is a lot of times what they'll do in these studies is they'll compare those people who just have one drink here or there or only drink socially compared to people who don't drink.

Usually what happens is these people who don't drink have already quit drinking because of their health issues.

And so they're just naturally less healthy.

In the United States anyway, Arizona has like the highest –

Respiratory illness rate.

Okay, which is weird because everybody moves Arizona because they have a clear But it's because a lot of people with those diseases will move to Arizona, right?

Yeah, same thing with like alcohol people who quit alcohol usually it's because of health issues or problems around their health