Reducing Alcohol Use to Prevent Cancer Deaths: Estimated Effects Among U.S. Adults
The Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2020–2025 recommends non-drinking or no more than 2 drinks for men or 1 drink for women in a day.
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The Center for Advancing Alcohol Science to Practice is committed to preventing excessive alcohol use and underage drinking by creating more knowledgeable and connected communities across the nation.
Working with our national partner organizations and our cadre of experts, we are committed to being a resource of excellence to communities and states as they work toward effective evidence-based, population-level strategies to prevent excessive alcohol use.
The Guide is a collection of evidence-based interventions for communities looking to improve health and prevent disease.
The Community Preventive Services Task Force
The CDC has produced 50 state-level (and the District of Columbia) fact sheets providing state-level statistics and what works to avoid excessive alcohol use.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
This overview provides a summary of the evidence-based resource guide Implementing Community-Level Policies to Prevent Alcohol Misuse.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
Explore our self-paced course where you’ll learn about the Center’s role, a broad overview of the CDC’s Outlet Density Toolkit, and key considerations for alcohol epidemiology teams working with state and local coalition partners.
The Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2020–2025 recommends non-drinking or no more than 2 drinks for men or 1 drink for women in a day.
U.S. deaths from causes fully due to excessive alcohol use increased during the past 2 decades.
This study adds to the research body providing evidence that underage drinking is correlated with adult alcohol use.
Excessive alcohol use is responsible for more than 178,000 deaths each year between 2020-2021
More than 40% of deaths due to excessive alcohol use are from binge drinking
Excessive alcohol use is responsible for about one third of deaths among adults 20 to 49
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