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Welcome, sweaty and pissed listeners. This is Karen Nicholl.

In for sweaty and pissed, menopause and more, I am a family nurse practitioner,

and I am pleased to have with me today, Alexandra Perignon.

She goes by Alex and she is a family nurse practitioner and a psychiatric nurse practitioner.

She is double-borted and she is here today to talk to us about drinking during COVID.

I think this has been a well-known problem and I just wanted to talk to her about

how do you identify the problem, what you can do about the problem, what are some of the triggers

that will set things in motion for you.

I do want to start with some statistics that we have in terms of sales of alcohol during COVID.

And according to Nielsen's market data, total alcohol sales outside of bars and restaurants,

so, you know, package stores, liquor stores, online, so on, have surged roughly 24%

during the pandemic. They have found that sales of spirits with higher alcohol content

rose even faster at a more than 27% increase over the last year.

And according to Forbes magazine, as the coronavirus began spreading across the US earlier this year,

total e-commerce alcohol sales experienced 10 years of growth in just three months time.

That's during March, April and May, 10 years of growth in three months, the first three months

of COVID. Online sales of alcohol in the US are expected to grow by more than 80% this year.

US alcohol e-commerce sales were 5.6 billion in 2020 and that's up roughly from roughly

three billion last year. And factors that make purchasing alcohol more easily during COVID

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