Psychiatric News (2/25) reports that US deaths attributable to “alcohol consumption appear to be rising,” researchers concluded after analyzing “data from the death certificates of U.S. residents (older than 15 years) who died between 2000 and 2016.” The study revealed that “the rate of death due to alcohol-induced causes increased overall from 2000 to 2016 at an average annual percentage change of 1.4% among men and 3.1% among women,” with the “largest increases in alcohol-induced deaths…observed among American Indian and Alaska Native men (average annual percentage change, 3.3%), American Indian and Alaska Native women (average annual percentage change, 4.2%), and white women (average annual percentage change, 4.1%).” The findings were published online Feb. 21 in JAMA Network Open.
Related Links:
— “Report Finds Rates of U.S. Deaths From Alcohol Use ‘Accelerating’, Psychiatric News, February 25, 2020