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Are You Drinking Yourself Into a Liver Transplant?

Hepatitis C has taken a second seat to alcohol-associated liver disease on the liver transplant waiting list, NBC News reports. One reason for the shift is hepatitis has become easier to treat with drugs. Another reason is because doctors have changed their attitudes about who gets a liver transplant and who doesn’t, and subsequently more persons with alcohol use disorder — those who can’t remain sober six months or longer — are getting on the list...