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Alcohol-related deaths have more than doubled in the past 18 years

New research from NIAAA shows that:

“Looking at data from death certificates from 1999 to 2017, researchers from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism determined that the number of alcohol-related deaths increased 50.9% from 16.9 to 25.5 per 100,000. Specifically, they counted 35,914 deaths in 1999 and 72,558 by 2017. That’s a loss of nearly 1 million Americans in that time period. In 2017 alone, 2.6% of about 2.8 million deaths in the US were alcohol related.”

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/08/health/alcohol-related-deaths-double/index.html