Alcohol has long been known as a risk factor for disease. The 1990 Global Burden of
Disease (GBD) study (Murray and Lopez 1996a, 1996b) identified alcohol as one of the …

This presentation describes the alcohol-related global burden of disease by geographic
region, sex and age, in comparison to other substance abuse related burdens. The method …

Alcohol is a psychoactive substance and has been used for centuries by many societies and
cultures. The harmful use of alcohol causes large number of diseases, social and economic …

Background Alcohol is consumed by an estimated 137.4 million people in the United States
12 years of age and older, and, as a result, is estimated to have caused about 140 thousand …

Alcohol has long been known as a risk factor for disease. The 1990 Global Burden of
Disease (GBD) study (Murray and Lopez 1996a, 1996b) identified alcohol as one of the …

Alcoholic beverages can be viewed from a number of perspectives. To a market economist,
beer, wine, spirits and other alcoholic beverages are one more category of consumer …

This document and any map included herein are without prejudice to the status of or
sovereignty over any territory, to the delimitation of international frontiers and boundaries …

Commentary on Rehm et al. (2017): Composition of alcoholic beverages—an under-researched
dimension in the global comparative r Page 1 Commentary on Rehm et al. (2017): Composition …

Alcoholic beverages and the problems they engender have been familiar fixtures in human
societies since the beginning of recorded history. Because alcohol is causally related to …