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Nation is failing to gain ground in preventing alcohol‐related deaths
Author(s) -
Enos Gary
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
alcoholism and drug abuse weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7591
pISSN - 1042-1394
DOI - 10.1002/adaw.32799
Subject(s) - disease control , demography , environmental health , alcohol , medicine , biology , sociology , biochemistry
The latest five‐year data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that the country has been stalled in the effort to prevent the worst outcomes from excessive alcohol use. During the period from 2011–15, excessive drinking was responsible for an average of more than 93,000 deaths per year and 2.7 million years of potential life lost, representing slight increases from the 2006–10 period.