Alcohol

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Politics

Alcohol Helps Americans Survive A Long Election Night

Americans found comfort in wine, liquor and beer while waiting for the election results, according to an online delivery company. Its Election Day sales were up about 68% compared to recent weeks.
Adedayo Akala
National

Americans Are Drinking 14% More Often During Pandemic, Study Finds

The study compared drinking habits of adults age 30-80 with their habits a year earlier. The study found the increase is most pronounced among women, for whom days with heavy drinking spiked by 41%.
Reese Oxner
Chehalis Tribe opens distillery after overturning centuries-old prohibition

A new distillery will soon begin making whiskey, vodka and gin on Chehalis tribal land in southwest Washington state. It's the first legal, Native-owned distillery to open on tribal land in the nation. The Chehalis Tribe's effort to diversify its economy by joining the craft spirits boom had to first overcome a nearly two century old prohibition on liquor production in Indian Country.
Tom Banse
Arts & Life

Erica Barnett shakes-up and stirs the conversation around alcoholism and addiction

When Seattle based reporter Erica Barnett took her first sip of alcohol as a young teen, she had no idea just how impactful that moment would later become. Nor did she realize how inadequate rehabilitation centers, inspirational self-help mottos, and truisms about a “rock bottom” (something Barnett never truly felt) would be for her.
Sonya Harris
Education

After their son’s death at a WSU fraternity, family calls for caution, and change

‘They will be back in business, but we will still be living with this grief, that we don't have our son.’
Paige Browning

Andy Hurst
Health

How Bars Are Fueling COVID-19 Outbreaks

To owners of bars and nightclubs, pandemic restrictions on the industry can feel punitive. But there are important differences, virus hunters say, between a bar and a restaurant that serves alcohol.
Will Stone
Impaired driving arrests declined during pandemic, though you're not drinking less

Impaired driving citations dropped sharply across Oregon and Washington this spring during the coronavirus pandemic. There are multiple possible...
Tom Banse
Business

Washington distillers switch from spirits to sanitizer

To help fight the spread of the coronavirus, dozens of distillers around the state are slowing down on beverage alcohol production to make hand sanitizer.
Casey Martin
Health

U.S. Alcohol-Related Deaths Have Doubled, Study Says

Nearly 73,000 people died from liver disease and other alcohol-related illnesses in 2017, up from just under 36,000 deaths in 1999. Alcohol was even more deadly than illicit drugs, including opioids.
Vanessa Romo

Allison Aubrey
Arts & Life

How prohibition forever changed policing in Seattle

On a recent SoundQs segment we learned about historic bootlegger Roy Olmstead. Today we do a deep dive on another larger-than-life figure from that time, black business owner Doc Hamilton. Both men dealt in illegal alcohol, but had wholly different experiences with the temperance movement and the law.
Deborah Wang

Alec Cowan

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