Do LGBTIQ people have more alcohol problems
than heterosexuals?
Studies from the 1970s and 1980s led many to
the conclusion that rates of alcoholism were higher among
LGBTIQ people than in the overall population-sometimes citing
rates of alcoholism in the LGBTIQ population as 30%.
However,
most of these studies were seriously flawed, drawing
participants from gay bars and other locations in which people
who drink are overrepresented.
More recent and reliable studies have been
conflicting, but there is some evidence that LGBTIQ youth and
possibly LGBTIQ adults have more alcohol problems than the
overall population.
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