There was a 23% increase in deaths from excessive alcohol use from 2018–2019 to 2020–2021, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported in the Feb. 29 issue of the CDC''s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report . This compares to a 5% increase that occurred from 2016–...
to know that during the pandemic, there is really a significant surge in alcohol use disorder-related deaths," Yeo said. "We also want to recognize that patients who die from alcohol use disorder-related causes tend to have social determinants of health, like lower socioeconomic...
More than 140,000 of that broader category of alcohol-related deaths occur annually, based on data from 2015 to 2019, the researchers said. CDC researchers say about 82,000 of those deaths are from drinking too much over a long period of time and 58,000 from causes tied to acute intoxica...
Many bicycling deaths involve alcohol use.Reports on the linkage between drinking and bicycling. Research conducted by scientists at the Johns Hopkins University medical school; Details of the studies; Results published in the December 1996 issue of 'Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research.'Mc...
Alcohol poisoning from binge drinking claims more than 2221 lives each year in the United States—a figure that represents 6 deaths daily, primarily among middle-aged men. In a recent study, researchers analyzed alcohol-poisoning deaths among people 15 years and older using multiple cause-of-...
Excessive alcohol use is one of the two leading causes of acute pancreatitis, and a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says deaths from alcohol-induced acute pancreatitis increased by 50% between 2019 and 2020. ...
Prevalence of alcohol consumption, abuse and dependence in a country with high per capita consumption: findings from the German TACOS study. Transitions in... The aim of the Transitions in Alcohol Consumption and Smoking (TACOS) project is to investigate substance use and use disorders in the adu...
have a higher risk of dying from binge drinking or other risky behaviors. This includes driving under the influence, injuries, sexual assault, or violence. Alcohol also affects proper brain development in teenagers. Thousands of people under 21 die from alcohol-related deaths in the U.S. each ...
Alcohol-related deaths in the US may have been associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as with the observed sex differences.20,21 However, our sensitivity analysis demonstrated that our findings remained robust even when excluding data from the year 2020, with the latest trends increasing...
For the 486 cases with alcohol consumption within 1 year prior to death, judgement of the presence of AUD was made using the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) based on data from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) ...