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Headline : More Women Are Drinking Themselves Sick. The Biden Administration Is Concerned.

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When Karla Adkins looked in the rearview mirror of her car one morning nearly 10 years ago, she noticed the whites of her eyes had turned yellow.

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She was 36 at the time and working as a physician liaison for a hospital system on the South Carolina coast, where she helped build relationships among doctors. Privately, she had struggled with heavy drinking since her early 20s, long believing that alcohol helped calm her anxieties. She understood that the yellowing of her eyes was evidence of jaundice. Even so, the prospect of being diagnosed with alcohol-related liver disease wasnโ€™t her first concern.

โ€œHonestly, the No. 1 fear for me was someone telling me I could never drink again,โ€ said Adkins, who lives in Pawleys Island, a coastal town about 30 miles south of Myrtle Beach.

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