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Drinking too much can harm your health. Exorbitant alcohol use resulted in around 88,000 deaths for around 2.5 million years of future life lost each year in the United States from 2006-- 2010, reducing the lives of those who died by about 30 years. Further, extreme drinking was responsible for 1 in 10 deaths among working-age women and men 20- 54 years of age. The financial expenses of excessive