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Drinking too much can hurt your health. Exorbitant alcohol use resulted in around 88,000 deaths for around 2.5 million years of potential life lost annually in the USA from 2006-- 2010, shortening the lives of those who died by an average of 30 years. Further, excessive drinking was responsible for 1 in 10 deaths among working-age adults aged 20-64 years. The financial costs of extreme alcohol con