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[ad_1] Alcoholic liver diseases in young people surge - CBS News Watch CBS News Doctors are seeing a new trend of alcohol-related illnesses in young adults, particularly women. Nearly a quarter of Americans who die from alcoholic liver disease each year are in their 20s, 30s and 40s. Nancy Chen takes a look. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On [ad_2] Source link https://worldnews2023.com/health/alcoholic-liver-diseases-in-young-people-surge/?feed_id=196638&_unique_id=6571a7335a42c

[ad_1] Maureen Anderson would spend hours at home alone with her baby. She said it was the isolation that led her to drink more frequently. "It became less of an out-of-the-house special occasion party thing to more of an at the end of the day, time to have a glass of wine, shut off my brain, relax," Anderson told CBS News. The married mother of four would soon go from a glass of wine to an entire bottle of wine. She didn't consider herself an alcoholic but a "gray-area drinker." Dr. Aakash Shah, chief of Jersey Shore University Medical Center's Addiction Medical Center, said that gray-area drinkers do not have a physical dependency on alcohol so they cannot be labeled as alcoholics, but the tendencies are similar. "I think the term falls into this gray area because it doesn't yet meet the medical definitions of alcoholism. But I think that risk is there," Shah said. According to UCLA H