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DEATHS due to alcohol have rocketed to nearly 8,400 a year, official figures reveal today. They show that 8,386 people died last year from alcoholrelated diseases, more than double the death toll from drinking of 4,144 in 1991. Death rates are much higher for men and the gap between...
We found evidence of significant alcohol problems in 18 cases and drug misuse in 74. The presence of drugs at post-mortem was significantly related to a verdict of accident/undetermined rather than suicide (p = 0.03). Post-mortem Class A drug toxicity was significantly related to accidental/...
ISTANBUL, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- Since the beginning of November, 37 people have died from poisoning due to consuming counterfeit alcohol in Türkiye's Istanbul, the Istanbul Governor's Office said in a statement on Monday. According to the statement, 73 individuals have been poisoned by counterf...
Drunk driving isn’t just due to alcohol consumption. Drugs (marijuana, cocaine, crack, meth, pain killers, etc.) are involved in nearly one out of five fatal accidents. That’s why law enforcement agencies issue DUIs for "impaired" driving as well as drunk driving. ...
QUITO, Oct. 26 (Xinhua) -- Five people have died in Ecuador due to methyl alcohol poisoning after 25 people fell ill Tuesday in two provinces after drinking bootleg liquor, the Public Health Ministry said Wednesday. Three people died in the coastal province of Esmeraldas and two in the provi...
To the Editor.— The great toll of deaths in the United States due to alcohol-associated diseases (other than trauma) was summarized recently by a group at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.1 To evaluate alcohol-related teenage deaths, traumatic or not, we used the same...
For example, the WHO list used in the present study categorised several poisoning deaths as deaths due to alcohol- and drug-use disorders and not as injury deaths. The declining sex gaps in LE/LD due to injuries suggest a convergence among sexes in underlying injury risk factors such as ...
More than 151,000 Americans died from drug overdoses, alcohol and suicide combined in 2018, slightly lower than the overall numbers in 2017, and leveling off for the first time in two decades, according to a new study.
Deaths related to suicide, drug misuse, and alcohol-specific causes, known collectively as “deaths of despair” are of growing interest to researchers in England. Rates of death from these causes are highest in deprived northern communities and are clos