"Episodes usually followed heavy weekend or holiday sprees, resulting in hospitalisation between Sunday or Tuesday or in proximity to the year-end holidays, a relationship not observed in other alcohol-associated illnesses," the study authors wrote.

Source: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/health/urgent-warning-over-silent-killer-31661405

Last year Dr. James Trotter, a hepatologist at Baylor University Medical Center, wrote in the journal Transplantation that the trend had spurred “local competition for patients” with alcohol-associated liver disease.

Source: https://www.propublica.org/article/he-needed-liver-transplant-did-risks-outweigh-rewards