Alcohol Addiction

Stark Number of Alcohol-Related Deaths of Young Americans

Nov. 3, 2022 – Drug overdoses and the opioid epidemic have devastated the country for the past two decades, taking far too many lives. But alcohol use and abuse is a huge problem that far gets less attention. As John Yang reports, a new study documents just how big a toll it is taking on American lives. 

Judy Woodruff:

We know that drug overdoses and the opioid epidemic have risen dramatically over the past few decades, causing one — hundreds of thousands of deaths.

But alcohol use and abuse is a huge problem as well, one that gets far less attention. A new study documents just how big a toll it is taking on American lives. John Yang has the details.

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