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Alcohol Abuse Caused 3 Million Deaths in 2016 – and Most Were Men: WHO

More than 3 million people died in 2016 due to drinking too much alcohol, meaning one in 20 deaths worldwide was linked to harmful drinking, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday [Sept. 21]. More than three-quarters of these …

Alcohol in Any Amount Found Unsafe; Linked to 3 Million Deaths a Year: Global Study

A new scientific study concludes there is no safe level of drinking alcohol. The study shows that in 2016, nearly 3 million deaths globally were attributed to alcohol use, including 12 percent of deaths in males between the ages of …

Alcohol Raises Injury Risk, But Also Survival Rate

Injured patients were less likely to die in the hospital if they had alcohol in their blood, according to a study from the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health — and the more alcohol, the more likely …