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Scott Rasmussen's Number of the Day for January 21, 2020
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January 21, 2020: The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism reports that 72,558 Americans died from alcohol-related deaths in 2017.[1] That same year, 72,224 deaths were attributed to drug overdoses (including opioids).[2] In other words, alcohol was responsible for 334 more deaths than drug overdoses.
Since 1999, the number of alcohol-related deaths in the United States more than doubled. Alcohol now plays a role in 2.6% of all U.S. deaths.[1]
“Nearly half of alcohol‐related deaths resulted from liver disease (30.7%; 22,245) or overdoses on alcohol alone or with other drugs (17.9%; 12,954).”[1]
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