ReutersJanuary
7, 2015

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It’s not college
students or teenagers but rather middle-aged Americans who are most likely to
die from drinking too much alcohol too quickly, according to a study released
by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday.
An average of six
people die each day in the United States from alcohol poisoning or excessively
high levels of alcohol in the blood, which is typically caused by binge
drinking, the federal study found.
Three out of four of
those who died were between the ages of 35 and 64, the study found, countering
the popular perception that young people are more likely than their elders to
die from binge drinking.
Only 5.1 percent of
the deaths were drinkers between the ages of 15 and 24, the study found.
"Contrary to
conventional wisdom, there is a lot of binge drinking going on by people who
are post college-age," the study’s co-author, Robert Brewer, told
reporters. "We were surprised by these findings."
The CDC defines binge
drinking as consuming four or more drinks for women or five or more drinks for
men on a single occasion.
Fewer than a third of
the people who died of alcohol poisoning were considered alcoholics, the study
found.
Analyzing death
certificate data from 2010 through 2012, researchers found that an average of
2,200 people, more than half of them white males, died from alcohol poisoning
each year.
State death rates
ranged from a low of 5.3 deaths per million residents in Alabama to a high of
46.5 deaths per million residents in Alaska. The regions with the highest death
rates were the Great Plains, the West and New England.
"Living in
geographically isolated rural areas might increase the likelihood that a person
with alcohol poisoning will not be found before death or that timely emergency
medical services will not be available," the researchers wrote.
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