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New government data out today suggests the alcohol death toll in the United States has climbed by nearly thirty percent.
That's the highest increase recorded in at least forty years.
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A report released on Friday listed more than a dozen kinds of alcohol-induced deaths which entirely boiled down to drinking -- alcohol-wreaked liver or pancreas failure, alcohol poisoning and multiple other diseases.
Marissa Esser, leader of the CDC's alcohol programme, lamented it's an often-overlooked issue, yet a "leading, preventable cause of death."
Over 52,000 such deaths were reported last year, up from 39,000 back in 2019.
The rate of such deaths had been increasing in the two decades before the pandemic, up 7 percent or so each year.
But the issue has since deteriorated. In 2020, a 26-percent rise was registered, to about 13 deaths in every 100,000 Americans.
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