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Treatment Heroin  Marriage May Really Drive Women to Drink
Women are influenced by their husbands to drink more,
researchers say, while married men cut back.   Marriage
influences boozing habits. Photo via  By McCarton Ackerman   |
Share  Married couples often joke that their spouses drive them
to drink, but a new study suggests that—for women—the claim is
true. Sociologists from the University of Cincinnati,
Pennsylvania State University, Rutgers University and the
University of Texas found that marriage does often drive women
to increase their alcohol intake—not because they’re necessarily
unhappy, but because they’re influenced by their husbands'
drinking, and men typically booze more than women. For a similar
reason, men who are married drink less, because they spend more
time with their less-boozy wives, rather than their drinking
buddies. The opposite is true of divorced men, who are at a
particularly high risk for alcohol abuse, the study found:
three-