cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/1522240
Archived version: https://archive.ph/xi2Hp
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20230816150644/https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/08/16/is-that-night-cap-worth-it-this-is-how-many-deaths-alcohol-contributes-to-in-europe
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Kicking back with a drink amid the warm summer heat is a common experience for most Europeans but many remain unaware of the risks associated with consuming alcohol.
Estimated to be a causal factor for more than 200 diseases and injuries, alcohol-related harm is considered a major public health issue in Europe, which has the highest rates of alcohol consumption.
In Europe, the highest rates of alcohol-attributable deaths per 100,000 are in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, according to age-standardised data from the latest Global Burden of Disease Study.
According to Eurostat data from 2011 to 2020 for 27 EU countries, four alcohol-related causes of death including malignant neoplasms, liver disease and mental disorders, decreased slightly over that time period.
“We’ve known for a while now that middle-aged women (aged 40-50) are drinking more,” said Dorothy Newbury-Birch, professor of alcohol and public health research at Teesside University in the United Kingdom.
A recent report in France found that the government was losing more money due to lives lost and prevention spending on alcohol and tobacco use than it made off of taxes on those products.
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Looks like it’s more due to alcoholism than just the occasional drink, based on the heatmap.
The hypocrisy in the way we treat alcohol compared to other drugs is insane.
