Advisory Board January 20, 2026
ED visits for conditions related to excessive alcohol consumption have doubled for both men and women in the past 20 years in the United States, according to a recent study published by CDC.
Study details
For the study, CDC analyzed data from the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey and found that almost 5.4 million people in the United States were treated for an alcohol-specific cause, like acute alcohol intoxication or alcohol addiction, during the 2021 to 2022 study period.
Specifically, the study found that almost 4 million men visited EDs from 2021 to 2022 for alcohol-related causes, slightly double the nearly 2 million men who did the same in 2003.
Similarly, alcohol-related ED visits for women increased from 701,000...
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