The Medical and Social Consequences of Alcohol Abuse
Year: 2008
Type: article
Abstract: Humans have drunk alcohol for at least twelve thousand years. It has been used in religious rituals, in ancient cultures as diverse as Samaria, Babylon, Egypt, China and Anglo-Saxon Britain 1 . According to the World Health Organisation (WHO) 1.8 million people worldwide died in 2000 from alcohol related causes, 3% of all deaths worldwide 2 . In 2001, up to 1,000 of 3,479 deaths from suicide and self-inflicted injury were associated with the misuse of alcohol in the United Kingdom. In the United States of America, each year 85,000 deaths occur along with substantial disability from medical, psychiatric consequences, injuries and “second-hand” effects such as road traffic accidents attributed to the use of alcohol. The estimated annual cost attributable to alcohol use in the United States is equivalent to US$185 billion .
Source: South Sudan Medical Journal
Author: Eluzai Hakim
Language: English
Subfield: Pathology and Forensic Medicine
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2297632360