ATLANTA, March 13 (UPI) -- Excessive alcohol consumption resulted in some 88,000 U.S. deaths and millions of years in shortened lifespans from 2006 to 2010, officials say.
Katherine Gonzales of the Michigan Department of Community Health, Jim Roeber of the New Mexico Department of Health, Dafna Kanny of the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion at the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention and colleagues estimated the cost of excessive alcohol consumption resulting in premature death in 2006 was $223 billion.