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More and more people started drinking alcohol at the start of the COVID pandemic, and a lot of them, apparently, didn't stop. A new study from Keck Medicine of USC found heavy alcohol use among Americans rose by 20 percent in 2020 compared to 2018. That level remained elevated in 2022.

For more on what's behind the increase, KCBS Radio's News Anchors Margie Shafer and Eric Thomas spoke with Dr. Brian Lee, hepatologist and liver transplant specialist with Keck School of Medicine of USC and principal investigator of the study.

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