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'Off The Charts' Rise In Alcoholic Liver Disease Among Young Women
Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:14:08
Publish Date: 2021-05-24 08:10:06
Description: **Heads up. This episode discusses addiction and alcoholism.**

Some doctors are seeing a disturbing spike in lethal alcoholic liver disease, especially among young women. The recent trend has been supercharged, they say, in the pandemic. Emily Kwong speaks to NPR science correspondent Yuki Noguchi about this and some of the challenges to getting proper treatment.

To read more on the story, check out Yuki's reporting here.

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