{"id":2736,"date":"2015-04-08T11:51:26","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T14:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=2736"},"modified":"2015-04-08T11:51:26","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T14:51:26","slug":"alcohol-awareness-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2015\/04\/08\/2736\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcohol Awareness Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/ncbddd\/fasd\/images\/beer-pint-glass.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"95\" height=\"186\" \/>April is <a href=\"https:\/\/ncadd.org\/in-the-news\/1419-april-2015-marks-29th-alcohol-awareness-month\">Alcohol Awareness Month<\/a>.\u00a0 This month highlights the health risks associated with problem drinking and the importance of identification and intervention.\u00a0 According to NCHS data, there are over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/nvsr\/nvsr64\/nvsr64_02.pdf\">18,000 <\/a>alcoholic liver disease deaths and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/nvsr\/nvsr64\/nvsr64_02.pdf\">29,000<\/a> alcohol-induced deaths (excluding accidents and homicides)\u00a0in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/series\/sr_10\/sr10_260.pdf\">50 percent<\/a> of the adults in the U.S. have said that they have had at least 12\u00a0alcoholic drinks in the past year.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. adult population consumes an average of almost<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/databriefs\/db110.pdf\"> 100 calories per day <\/a>from alcoholic beverages.\u00a0 Men consume more calories from alcoholic beverages than women.\u00a0Younger adults consume more calories from alcoholic beverages than older adults.\u00a0Men consume more beer than other types of alcohol.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/fastats\/alcohol.htm\">http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/fastats\/alcohol.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/alcohol\/\">http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/alcohol\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April is Alcohol Awareness Month.\u00a0 This month highlights the health risks associated with problem drinking and the importance of identification and intervention.\u00a0 According to NCHS data, there are over 18,000 alcoholic liver disease deaths and 29,000 alcohol-induced deaths (excluding accidents and homicides)\u00a0in the U.S. Over 50 percent of the adults in the U.S. have said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32518],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2736"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}