On the Rocks: The Quiet Public Health Threat of Rising U.S. Alcohol Deaths
Senior Research Fellow at SHADAC
Even as the opioid crisis captured national attention, alcohol-involved deaths quietly increased roughly 50% in just over a decade. And those trends occurred before pandemic-era developments that threaten to exacerbate the problem, such as increased rates of alcohol consumption, heavy drinking and binge drinking. SHADAC‘s study of alcohol-involved death rates examines the growing public health threat from 2006 to 2019 by analyzing trends and variation across states and demographic subgroups, including race and ethnicity, urbanization, gender and age.
