Alcohol-related liver disease on the rise among young women amid increased pandemic drinking
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Landree Sarata was just 31 years old when she was diagnosed with end-stage liver failure after drinking nearly daily for the past decade. I never expected the diagnosis I got, Sarata, now 37, of Quincy, Massachusetts., told Good Morning America. I thought I just drank as much as everybody else did and had fun like everybody else.
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Sarata, who is now on disability and unable to work, said she began drinking daily through her job in pharmaceutical sales and never thought she drank more than anyone else among her social circle.
As the pandemic sends thousands of recovering alcoholics into relapse, hospitals across the country have reported dramatic increases in alcohol-related admissions for critical diseases like alcoholic hepatitis and liver failure.
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