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Analyzing America's drinking problem

A man drinks a glass of alcohol Ashraf Khan (Asif Hassan/AFP via Getty Images)
Asif Hassan/AFP via Getty Images
A man drinks a glass of alcohol Ashraf Khan (Asif Hassan/AFP via Getty Images)

Our editorial partner STAT, the health and medicine publication, has a new multipart series on what they call the United States’ drinking problem and “nation in denial.”

Here & Now’s Indira Lakshmanan talks with Isabella Cueto, a chronic disease reporter at STAT and a lead reporter on the series, titled “The Deadliest Drug.”

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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