FACTS & STATS
This is a new page on my blog, I will continue to add more facts and stats in the future :)
An estimated 88,000 people (approx. 62,000 men and 26,000 women) die from alcohol-related causes annually in the United States.
When you blackout (thought to occur when the blood alcohol content goes over 14%), you brain actually temporarily loose the ability to form memories.
Alcohol that plays a role in 40 % of violent crimes, and in almost 50% of sexual assaults.
Women who are dependent on alcohol are 50 to 100 percent more likely to die from alcohol-related causes than men who are dependent on alcohol.
Alcohol the third leading preventable cause of death in the United States.
In 2012, about 3.3 million deaths, or 5.9% of all global deaths, were attributable to alcohol consumption.
More than 10 percent of U.S. children live with a parent with alcohol problems, according to a 2012 study.
In 2009, alcohol-related liver disease was the primary cause of almost 1 in 3 liver transplants in the United States.
One in four deaths of young men aged 15-39 in Ireland is due to alcohol.
More than 5.3 million women ages 18 and older have an alcohol use disorder in the United states.
Alcohol is responsible for 1 out of 10 working-age adults deaths worldwide.
Alcohol is a factor in half of all suicides in Ireland.
Girls, who at age 12 had low self-esteem, are nearly two and a half times likelier to engage in heavy alcohol use by the age of 15 than those with higher self-esteem.
In the US alone, the yearly financial burden of alcohol is estimated at $249 billion. To put that in perspective, the total yearly US federal education budget is around $60 billion.
1 in 4 people who have a mental illness also have a substance use disorder.
20% of people dealing with social anxiety disorder suffer from alcohol dependency.
Alcohol that is responsible for 1 out of 3 road traffic fatalities in the US.
Since 2002, female alcohol disorders more than doubled in the US.