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How Instagram Can Make Quitting Drinking Harder

As people try to reduce their alcohol consumption, ads served up on social media — and posts from friends — can be an impediment

Angela Lashbrook
OneZero
Published in
7 min readAug 28, 2019

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Photo by Collins Lesulie on Unsplash

AtAt the end of last year, I decided to significantly slow down my drinking. At the time, I was — like everyone in New…

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Angela Lashbrook
OneZero

I’m a columnist for OneZero, where I write about the intersection of health & tech. Also seen at Elemental, The Atlantic, VICE, and Vox. Brooklyn, NY.