Posted on 01/18/2020 9:07:43 AM PST by Libloather
Researchers from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism analyzed the death certificates of Americans ages 16 and up between 1999 and 2017. And while 35,914 deaths were alcohol-related in 1999, that number doubled to reach 72,558 in 2017. The death rate spiked 50.9% from 16.9 to 25.5 per 100,000.
In other words, alcohol was a factor in nearly 1 million deaths during that time period, with about half of these deaths resulting from liver disease, or a fatal overdose from alcohol or alcohol mixed with other drugs. In 2017 alone, 2.6% of roughly 2.8 million deaths in the United States involved alcohol.
What’s more, the CDC warned in a separate report on Thursday that binge drinkers (defined as four drinks during one occasion for women, and five drinks for men) are consuming more alcohol than they were before. The number of drinks they’ve knocked back spiked from 472 on average in 2011 to 529 in 2017, or a 12% increase.
And the number of binge drinks per adult who reported binge-drinking increased “significantly” in nine states, the report added, including Idaho, Indiana, Maine, Montana, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, and Virginia. But it decreased significantly in Massachusetts and West Virginia, and did not change significantly in the other 30 states or D.C.
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Quit in 1989.
“I’m allergic to alcohol, I break out in handcuffs.”
Thanks cherry I thought I was the only one here. I married an Asian guy who grew up in Asia. He hardly touches alcohol, let alone anything harder. He thinks of marriage as a partnership rather than as a form of feminist oppression and treats me like I’m the best thing that ever happened to him. No mind games, no power plays, logic-based rather than emotion-based...I could go on about how much I love my husband and strive to be the best wife I can be for him. The fact that he is slender, looks and dresses like a model, and will age well really just is the icing on the cake.
Regrets: 0
“just is” should read “is just”
"And we drink alone!"
Jerry Doyle sadly drank himself to death, at least partly from what JMS says in his autobiography.
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