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Bookmark or Share- Drinking too much alcohol can harm your health. Learn the facts | CDCExcessive alcohol use led to about 178,000 deaths and 4 million years of potential life lost each year in the United States from 2020 – 2021, shortening the lives of those who died by an average of 24 years. 1 Further, excessive drinking was responsible for 1 in 5 deaths among adults aged 20-49 years. 2 The economic costs of excessive alcohol co...
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)The Cycle of Alcohol Addiction. Alcohol addiction is a chronic relapsing disorder associated with compulsive alcohol drinking, the loss of control over intake, and the emergence of a negative emotional state when alcohol is no longer available. Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is a condition characterized by an impaired ability to stop or control ...
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is a medical condition characterized by an impaired ability to stop or control alcohol use despite adverse social, occupational, or health consequences. It encompasses the conditions that some people refer to as alcohol abuse, alcohol dependence, alcohol addiction, and the colloquial term, alcoholism.
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is a medical condition that doctors diagnose when a patient’s drinking causes distress or harm. The condition can range from mild to severe and is diagnosed when a patient answers “yes” to two or more of the following questions. In the past year, have you:
- Alcohol use disorder - Symptoms and causes - Mayo ClinicAlcohol use disorder is a pattern of alcohol use that involves problems controlling your drinking, being preoccupied with alcohol or continuing to use alcohol even when it causes problems. This disorder also involves having to drink more to get the same effect or having withdrawal symptoms when you rapidly decrease or stop drinking.
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