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- Drinking kills 100 000 Americans each year. Causes of death can include cirrhosis of the liver, cancers, heart attacks and drunk driving.
- Between 25% and 40% of all US hospital beds are filled by people receiving treatment related to alcohol use or abuse.
- America spends almost 180 billion dollars in health care expenditures to treat alcohol related disorders each year.
- Alcoholics will on average spend 4 times as long in hospitals as non drinkers.
- Children of alcoholics will spend 62% more time in hospital than children of non drinkers.
- More than 14 million Americans meet the criteria for alcohol abuse, and 18% of Americans will have a drinking problem at some point in their life. Alcoholism affects 43% of families.
