Why We Drink: Social Drinkers vs Problem Drinkers (E81)
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Gill discusses why we drink. Our motivation for drinking matters and a recent study found that why we drink coincides with the development of alcohol use disorder. She covers the main reasons why people drink: to cope with mental health and negative emotions, to unwind after work and deal with stress, to socialize, and to cope with stress from parenting. She found some interesting studies to share with you about why people drink, and one study at the end of the episode about why mom’s drink.
What to listen to next:
E55: How to Power Through When You Want to Give Up
E63: Why Alcohol Causes Depression and Suicidal Thoughts
E79: Why We Romanticize Alcohol
E54: Neuroplasticity and Using Alcohol to Escape or Numb Out
E43: Drinking to Cope
Sources
Muller, C. et al. Sex-dependent alcohol instrumentation goals in non-addicted alcohol consumers versus patients with alcohol use disorder: longitudinal change and outcome prediction. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. 45:3. 2021.
Muller CP, Kornhuber J (2017) Biological evidence for paradoxical improve- € ment of psychiatric disorder symptoms by addictive drugs. Trends Pharmacol Sci 38:501–502.
Kuntsche, S. Drinking to cope mediates the link between work-family conflict and alcohol use among mothers but not fathers of preschool children. Addictive Behaviors. 112:106665. 2021.
M.L. Cooper. Motivations for alcohol use among adolescents: Development and validation of a four-factor model. Psychological Assessment, 6 (2) (1994), pp. 117-128
Cite this episode
Tietz, G. Episode 81: Why We Drink: Social Drinkers vs Problem Drinkers. Sober Powered. 2022.
