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posted by martyb on Wednesday September 26 2018, @06:53AM   Printer-friendly
from the sense-no-makes dept.

Excessive drinking killed over 3 million people in 2016

Drinking too much alcohol killed more than 3 million people in 2016, mostly men, the World Health Organization said.

The U.N. health agency also warned that current policy responses are not sufficient to reverse trends predicting an increase in consumption over the next 10 years.

In a new report Friday, the agency said that about 237 million men and 46 million women faced alcohol problems, with the highest prevalence in Europe and the Americas. Europe has the highest global per capita alcohol consumption, even though it has already dropped by 10 percent since 2010.

Around a third of alcohol-related deaths were a result of injuries, including car crashes and self-harm, while about one in five were due to either digestive disorders or cardiovascular diseases. Cancers, infectious diseases, mental disorders and other health conditions were also to blame.

From the Chapter 4 summary:

In 2016, the harmful use of alcohol resulted in some 3 million deaths (5.3% of all deaths) worldwide and 132.6 million disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) – i.e. 5.1% of all DALYs in that year. Mortality resulting from alcohol consumption is higher than that caused by diseases such as tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS and diabetes. Among men in 2016, an estimated 2.3 million deaths and 106.5 million DALYs were attributable to the consumption of alcohol. Women experienced 0.7 million deaths and 26.1 million DALYs attributable to alcohol consumption.

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  • (Score: 1, Disagree) by khallow on Wednesday September 26 2018, @11:56AM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday September 26 2018, @11:56AM (#740112) Journal

    3 million die because of alcohol. But *why* are they overdosing? Depression, social situation, etc.

    Blaming alcohol is lazy.

    Not lazier than blaming the usual laundry list of relatively intractable problems every time something like this comes out. It's worth noting here that alcohol abuse can cause those problems as well as be a response to them.

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