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Jul 2022
47m 2s

Bottled Up: Your Stories About Alcohol

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About this episode

We asked you about your relationships with alcohol—why you drink, or don't, the strategies you use to manage your consumption, and what alcohol brings you besides a buzz. Here's what you told us.

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