The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
And there's an additional risk factor that there's certain genetic profiles where people respond strongly to alcohol. Like, as you're saying, it's not just, oh, there's a little bit of short term relief of distress, but there's this sort of euphoric response and those genetics, we don't understand them completely. They seem to be in Northern European populations, more prevalent as you head west in Northern Europe.
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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