A report released this week by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, has found that alcohol was responsible for 88,000 deaths a year, each year from 2006 to 2010.
The study not only looked at the long term effects of abuse of alcohol, which can result in heart and liver disease especially, but also at the effects of a one off alcohol splurge or binge drinking by those who could not be classed as regular alcoholics.
Interestingly there were more deaths due to binge drinking than long term abuse, such as drowning, traffic accidents, violence, suicide and falls.
However adding them both together, alcohol related deaths cut the lives short of each American who died, by a staggering 30 years.
This makes alcohol the fourth cause of avoidable death in the country behind smoking, poor nutrition and lack of activity.
Excessive Drinking Death
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