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Alcohol-related deaths have doubled in the past 20 years

Stevicus

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U.S. alcohol-related deaths have doubled since 1999

This is not a topic I've paid much attention, but I was a bit surprised by this.

Jan. 8 (UPI) -- Alcohol-related deaths in the United States have doubled in the past two decades, a study contends, with the largest increase coming among women and middle-aged adults.

The study, published Wednesday in Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, was published by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, an agency of the National Institutes of Health.

Researchers report that 35,914 alcohol-related deaths occurred in 1999, a rate of 16.9 deaths per 100,000 people over 16, and by 2017 the figure had increased to 72,558 deaths in 2017, or 25.5 deaths per 100,000 people.

The 2017 figure is higher than the estimate for that year of deaths from illegal drug use, including heroin and fentanyl, a situation regarded as a public health crisis, researchers say.

I guess we're turning into a country of boozers.

Liver damage was cited as the leading cause of alcohol-related death, taking 30.7 percent of the total, and overdoses with alcohol or alcohol mixed with other drugs accounted for 17.9 percent.

Rates were highest among males and people in 45-to-74 age group, although the largest annual increase occurred among non-Hispanic white females.
 

dianaiad

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U.S. alcohol-related deaths have doubled since 1999

This is not a topic I've paid much attention, but I was a bit surprised by this.



I guess we're turning into a country of boozers.

Well, you could all convert to Mormonism. We don't drink booze. Or coffee. Or tea. Nor do we smoke. In spite of that, we aren't all THAT boring. Well, I don't think so. However, er...we don't contribute (the practicing ones, anyway) to the above stats. Perhaps if we just sit around and watch you people drink yourselves to death, we can take over the world?

(thinking)

Nah. that won't work. Lots of other people don't drink, either---and I understand that it's against Islamic rules, too. A WHOLE lot of Baptists don't.

Hmnn...I guess I'm going to have to rethink my dastardly plan of conquest.
 

Subduction Zone

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A quick read indicates it may be due more to reporting causes of death has gotten more accurate.

EDIT:

This is the quote that makes me think it is a reporting issue:

The study relied on mortality data from the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics, but since death certificates sometimes do not mention the involvement of alcohol in a cause of death, "the scope of alcohol-related mortality in the United States is likely higher than suggested," the writers concluded.
 
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Saint Frankenstein

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A quick read indicates it may be due more to reporting causes of death has gotten more accurate.

EDIT:

This is the quote that makes me think it is a reporting issue:

The study relied on mortality data from the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics, but since death certificates sometimes do not mention the involvement of alcohol in a cause of death, "the scope of alcohol-related mortality in the United States is likely higher than suggested," the writers concluded.
It's not just that: Long-Term Trends in Deaths of Despair - Long-Term Trends in Deaths of Despair - United States Joint Economic Committee
 

Kangaroo Feathers

Yea, it is written in the Book of Cyril...
A quick read indicates it may be due more to reporting causes of death has gotten more accurate.

EDIT:

This is the quote that makes me think it is a reporting issue:

The study relied on mortality data from the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics, but since death certificates sometimes do not mention the involvement of alcohol in a cause of death, "the scope of alcohol-related mortality in the United States is likely higher than suggested," the writers concluded.
I wonder how the decline of other leading causes of death effects this? I mean, people gotta die of something, if fewer are dying of tobacco related causes, then some other stat has to increase.
 
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