The New York Times (3/30, Span ) detailed rising concern over older Americans’ drinking habits, with CDC data showing that “the annual number of alcohol-related deaths from 2020 through 2021 exceeded 178,000.” Furthermore, a National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism analysis “shows that people over 65 accounted for 38 percent of that total,” and “from 1999 to 2020, the 237 percent increase in alcohol-related deaths among those over age 55 was higher than for any age group except 25- to 34-year-olds.” The Times added that “an aging population foreshadows a continuing surge that has health care [professionals] and elder advocates worried, even if older people’s drinking behavior doesn’t change.”
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