that kind of aggression they have to be dealt with with a high degree of containment to help them. you are not allowed to ask anything of anybody. you can t tell an addict who s dying of their progressive disease to come with me. or don t sleep there. you can t say anything to anybody. and that harms people so much. the other idea is your mental health is enhanced when you are off the screen. no kidding. real quick, senator josh hawley says 16 and under shouldn t be on social media. limit it to an hour max to two hours a day.
the upper, sometimes antidepressants can help. they re real there is no cure for the disease. it s a progressive disease that will ultimately result in death, but it can take many years. it really is a curse, as you describe it, because it sounds like he is a strong man, strong fifth man, so for his brain to be portraying him, it will be a huge challenge. right. dr. reiner this can go on i am sorry. you can finish your sentence. i was going to say, this can go on for many years, and a big it can become a tremendous burden for families to care for people affected with these conditions. yeah, i can imagine. dr. reiner, it s sad, thank you very much for all the information, nice to have you with us tonight. thanks, alison.
our bodies are different. when the pandemic started, i started drinking. seven months later, it was two drinks. i started to feel like i need this. after i worked on this episode i stopped. it is a progressive disease. it s not like heroin or fentanyl. these days people are drinking so much more that it s requiring less. as you just described yourself experiencing that, so many people over the pandemic felt the same way at home feeling also that it s safer that they were at home and drinking. i think probably a lot of curb sides noticed a whole lot more bottles in the recycle bins, right for sure. during the pandemic.
totally legal and totally celebrated. but it is the biggest addiction in america. in fact, it kills more people than prescription pills, heroin and cocaine combined. 15 million americans repeatedly struggle with alcohol disorder and that doctor told me that he has spent a 20-year career, most of the people he would perform surgeries on were men in their 60s and had, you know, been drinking for decades in some cases because alcohol use disorder is a progressive disease. he said in the last couple years, cases or people put on liver transplants exploded up 325% and in fact, the population hardest hit are women under 35. wow. women under 35. and as you say, 15 million americans impacted by this. it s interesting, too, because the opioid crisis is so prominent in the news the last several years, so much focus on that. you know is the whalcohol crisi