Excessive Alcohol Use
Why Is This Important?
Excessive alcohol use can result in harms such as motor vehicle injuries, violence, heart disease, cancer, alcohol poisoning, and poor birth outcomes. Excessive alcohol use includes binge drinking (five or more drinks per occasion for men or four or more drinks per occasion for women), heavy drinking (15 or more drinks a week for men or 8 or more drinks a week for women), and any alcohol use by pregnant women or underage youth.
Excessive drinking is responsible for about 88,000 deaths and 2.5 million years of potential life lost in the United States each year. Binge drinking is responsible for more than half of the deaths and two-thirds of the years of potential life lost resulting from excessive alcohol use. In Arkansas, each year 920 deaths and 28,226 years of potential life are lost due to the harms resulting from excessive alcohol use.
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