The dark reason why liquor stores are considered essential businesses
A shopper struggles to open the back door of his sedan while juggling his purchase from a liquor store minutes after Denver Mayor Michael Hancock issued a "stay at home" order to reduce the spread of the new coronavirus.in almost every state in the US as other stores were forced to shut down.
"You don't want those people to quit cold turkey," O'Hanlon told Business Insider. "You don't want those people to flood hospitals because, unfortunately, at this stage, we don't have, there's not enough beds for them.", Max Jordan Nguemeni Tiako and Kelsey C. Priest explain that closing liquor stores could be catastrophic for people with alcohol use disorder .
"We don't want people in hospital rooms because they're having withdrawal symptoms," O'Hanlon said. "We need to make sure their lives are protected as well. But we also want to protect our lives."
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