Drinking too much can harm your health. Exorbitant alcohol consumption resulted in around 88,000 deaths for around 2.5 million years of potential life lost each year in the United State of America from 2006-- 2010, reducing the lives of those who perished by an average of three decade. Further, extreme drinking was responsible for 1 in 10 deaths amongst working-age men and women aged 20-64 years.