Sharp, 'Off The Charts' Rise In Alcoholic Liver Disease Among Young Women

[mamba]

Link: NPR Cookie Consent and Choices

For many years, Jessica Duenas led what she calls a double life. She was the first in her immigrant family to go to college. In 2019, she won Kentucky's Teacher of the Year award. That same year, Duenas typically downed nearly a liter of liquor every night.

By the time she was 34, she was diagnosed with alcoholic hepatitis, a serious inflammation of her liver that doctors warned could could soon lead to irreversible scarring and even death if she didn't didn't stop drinking, and quickly.

"I couldn't keep down any food," Duenas says. "My belly was supersensitive, like if I pressed on certain parts of it, it would hurt a lot. My eyes were starting to get yellowish."

Cases of alcoholic liver disease — which includes milder fatty liver and the permanent scarring of cirrhosis, as well as alcoholic hepatitis — are up 30% over the last year at the University of Michigan's health system, says Dr. Jessica Mellinger, a liver specialist there.

 

[mamba]

I have noticed women drinking a lot more nowadays. They are often drinking heavier than men are.

In terms of volume, those mimosas, bottles of wine and cocktails Thursday-Sunday add up.

 

[OaklandCertified]

These young bytches drink like sailors.

 

[Chrishaune]

I have noticed women drinking a lot more nowadays. They are often drinking heavier than men are.

They wanted man problems.

I'm out here dealing with it not drinking like......

 

[goatmane]

Who else is not shocked

>For many years, Jessica Duenas led what she calls a double life. She was the first in her immigrant family to go to college. In 2019, she won Kentucky's Teacher of the Year award. That same year, Duenas typically downed nearly a liter of liquor every night

 

[mamba]

They wanted man problems.

I'm out here dealing with it not drinking like......

My drinking fell way off during the pandemic.

 

[humminbird]

she better stop now
if she doesn't drink anything for two years she should be good

 

[MajesticLion]

The perils of being a rumcork.

 

[mamba]

Who else is not shocked

>For many years, Jessica Duenas led what she calls a double life. She was the first in her immigrant family to go to college. In 2019, she won Kentucky's Teacher of the Year award. That same year, Duenas typically downed nearly a liter of liquor every night

I know women like her. The are drinking every day after work and on weekends.

 

[Ya' Cousin Cleon]

Americans would be better off if they drank more

cause compared to other countries we're lightweights

 

[mamba]

This is in line with Kev Samuels core arguments that modern women aren't happy. A lot of them are drowning away their sorrows.

He should do a show on this.

 

[mamba]

Americans would be better off if they drank more

cause compared to other countries we're lightweights

Not paired with the diet we have. Our life expectancy would drop considerably.

 

[Ya' Cousin Cleon]

It's not that immediate.

There's a conversation that should be had in regards to the overall context of the nature of work and pushing young people off cliffs for success is what should be had, but I remember where I'm posting.

Not paired with the diet we have. Our life expectancy would drop considerably.

 

[EarlyEarly]

All that boat driving

 

[Henri Christophe]

women are not happy bro.

these young chicks drinking, popping pills, doing coke, smoking weed like Bob Marley in the 70s, having sex like Europeans and catching STDs..... chicks are depressed out here bro.

Its not the era to find a wife.... theyre simply not qualified.

This is the era to get money.