More Young Adults Are Dying from Alcohol-Caused Liver Disease

[velmu]

https://gizmodo.com/more-young-adults-are-dying-from-alcohol-caused-liver-d-1827717982

[JoeAltmaier]

I knew one. He was one of my Scouts when a pre-teen. In his 20's somehow ended up in a friends living room playing video games and drinking beer and only beer for months. It killed him.

Something about the young, makes them think they can live forever, do anything without consequences.

[toomuchtodo → JoeAltmaier]

Before age 25, the part of your brain responsible for evaluating consequences hasn’t fully developed.

https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/encyclopedia/content.aspx?Con...

[ryneandal]

Alcohol-related death rising between 2009-2016, makes sense considering the economic state at the beginning of that window.