Drinking excessively can hurt your health. Excessive alcohol consumption caused approximately 88,000 deaths for around 2.5 million years of potential life lost every year in the USA from 2006-- 2010, shortening the lives of those who perished by about 30 years. Further, extreme drinking was accountable for 1 in 10 deaths amongst working-age men and women aged 20-64 years. The economic costs of ext