Drinking excessively can damage your health. Exorbitant alcohol consumption led to roughly 88,000 deaths for around 2.5 million years of future life lost each year in the United State of America from 2006-- 2010, reducing the lives of those who died by an average of 30 years. Further, extreme drinking was responsible for 1 in 10 deaths amongst working-age women and men aged 20-64 years. The econom