alcohol-related death

From 2020 to 2022, the state observed a 1.4% increase in liver-related deaths compared with the years before the pandemic. During that period, alcohol sales also increased.

Two CDC reports provided further details on which groups have the highest death rates and which states are seeing the largest numbers. One of the studies focused on more than a dozen kinds of "alcohol-induced" deaths that were wholly blamed on drinking.

Nearly 73,000 people died from liver disease and other alcohol-related illnesses in 2017, up from just under 36,000 deaths in 1999. Alcohol was even more deadly than illicit drugs, including opioids.

An estimated 17,000 Americans are on the waiting list for a liver transplant, and there’s a strong chance that many of them have alcohol-associated liver…

An autopsy report shows a cancer researcher who fell to his death from a hotel balcony in South Florida was drunk, according to the South Florida Sun…