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NancyLebovitz comments on Moderate alcohol consumption inversely correlated with all-cause mortality - Less Wrong Discussion

0 Post author: michaelcurzi 11 July 2012 05:41PM

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 11 July 2012 11:06:35PM 8 points [-]

A mention of a study which excluded sober alcoholics, and hypothesizes that a little alcohol is good because it makes socializing more likely.

Comment author: [deleted] 12 July 2012 12:00:08AM 2 points [-]

Good read, aside from reliving social anxieties, there is also the self-medicating aspect; since alcohol dulls anxieties in general some people claim that it actually has a net positive effect on public mental health, highly speculative, but worth considering.