Yonah Budd

Is this, is this a maladaptive thing that I've learned or is this a fine thing?

But if I'm socially isolated, I have no community, I never leave the house, then it's maladaptive.

I have a barista I argue with every now and again.

Well, Yonah Budd, you can find him at yonahbudd.com.

Yonah, I've enjoyed going over this Center for Addiction and Mental Health Report and Associated Trail Off conversation.

Thank you so much for being on the show.

Hey, great to be here, David.

Yeah, well, I think we have to be cognizant of the fact that a lot of people were doing a lot of drinking pre-pandemic.

And to be honest, a lot of the folks that were drinking more at home, some of, not all of, were those folks that on their way home would stop at their local, have a couple of beers, maybe a cocktail, a wing or two, some pretzels, and come home.

So we didn't really see the at-home drinking

But one might argue that, you know, if John Doe was drinking more at home during the pandemic, I might suggest that John Doe may be drinking outside of the home pre-pandemic, not too distant from his levels of today, perhaps.

Yeah, I think it's really alarming.

I think what that tells us is that people found alcohol as a coping mechanism and never stopped.

And, you know, when they perhaps wouldn't drink because they were at home and, you know, had to show up at the office or whatever reasons people, you know, a lot of people became, you know, much more anxious and, you know, felt a lot less good about themselves.

during that period of the pandemic, especially during lockdown, a lot of uncertainty.

So a lot of people turned to alcohol, drugs, eating, gambling, all kinds of different at-risk behaviors.

And I think a lot of people got locked in it.

And I don't think we're doing a very good job.

And I predicted it.

If you go back to radio shows I did five, six years ago, I predicted that the true pandemic is going to come for a decade or two after the virus-related pandemic is over.