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A growing number of Americans gave Dry January a try this year, abstaining from alcohol in the first month of the year. Participation in the annual sobriety ritual has risen steadily since the non-profit Alcohol Change UK started it 10 years ago. More than twice as many people tried to go the month without alcohol, or with very little, this year than did in 2020. By some estimates, 1 in 5 Americans of drinking age — or more — gave Dry January a try this year.

This year, the campaign came against a backdrop of a surge in drinking during the coronavirus pandemic. U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis data indicates that November s…….

Here’s to the end of another dry January, the sobriety challenge that grows more popular every year. I did a dry month in 2020 to break the spell of a decade of nightly wine drinking, but I chose February instead of January because it was three days shorter.

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With each day of the month that passed, I felt better, stronger, more rested. I was almost sorry to see it end, but I didn’t consider staying dry. Alcohol wasn’t ruining my life. Why deprive my future self of future fun? Not drinking was hard, like paying attention to a three-hour seminar is hard, being…….