Alcohol Poisoning Kills 6 Americans a Day, a Federal Report Finds
Six Americans die from alcohol poisoning daily on average, and mortality rates are highest among middle-aged men, federal health authorities reported on Tuesday.
The report is the first in a decade by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to tally alcohol poisonings for the entire American population. Most previous analyses looked at certain groups, in particular young people.
The C.D.C. described death from alcohol poisoning as “a bigger problem than previously thought,” but said it was impossible to tell whether the death rate had risen because researchers had changed how they track the data in recent years.
Apparently hasn’t reached EPIDEMIC LEVELS yet…
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6 a day”. Spare me the hype and bullshit