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A new report from the R Street Institute shows alcohol delivery is not correlated to higher rates of alcohol consumption. The report is based on recent data from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) Surveillance Report, which R Street compared to state alcohol delivery rules.

“News stories during the pandemic suggested that liberalizing alcohol delivery laws was causing Americans to drink more,” notes C. Jarrett Dieterle, a resident senior fellow at the R Street Institute and the author of Give Me Liberty and Give Me a Drink!

As one Washington Post headline from December 2021 put it: “States rushed to loosen alcohol laws in the pandemic. Heavy drinking went up, some studies say.”

The problem is that these “studies” said no such thing. It was clear that more states were allowing alcohol delivery. And there was also evidence showing that Americans were drinking more during COVID-19. But there were no studies showing a connection between these two things. In fact, numerous researchers suggested that “social stressors” like loneliness and greater demands during the pandemic were the likeliest causes of increased consumption.

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