VIDEO – SAMPLING NOTHING WORKS –
Dec. 25, 2024 – Andrea McCarthy told friends and family when she gave up alcohol on January 1, 2024, that she would toast 12 months off the sauce with a drink to ring in 2025. As that anniversary approached, the Los Angeles-born content creator told Newsweek she had had a change of heart. ‘At midnight, I’m having a shot at tequila to celebrate not having a drink for the entire year.’ But now that I’ve gotten to an entire year, I couldn’t think of anything worse than drinking,”
“The feeling that I thought I would get for not drinking for an entire year in terms of my mental clarity, my physical health, like, everything—it is exactly what I thought. It feels incredible, so I don’t necessarily want to go back.”
Since the 1940s, roughly 60 percent of Americans have said they drink occasionally, according to analysis by The New Consumer/Coefficient Capital, a statistic that has stayed consistent until today. But that stat is beginning to drift downward, with 26 percent of Americans polled saying they planned to drink less in 2025.
