By Kelsie SandovalOriginal Source: insider.comIn the 11 months since the pandemic began, drinking rates and alcohol sales have been steadily increasing.Doctors have been warning it's a concern, and some say we're already seeing the consequences, with alcoholic liver disease is increasingly affecting people younger than 40.Although the trend "has been alarming for years," Dr. Raymond Chung, a hepatologist at Harvard University, told Eli Cahan of the Los Angeles Times and California Healthline, the pandemic has exacerbated the problem. "What we're seeing now is truly dramatic."Dr. Haripriya Maddur, a hepatologist at Northwestern Medicine, has also been treating young people...click here to continue reading