Drinking excessively can hurt 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, shortening the lives of those who died by about 30 years. Further, excessive drinking was accountable for 1 in 10 deaths amongst working-age men and women 20- 54 years of age. The financial costs of exce