Study reveals stark number of alcohol-related deaths among young Americans

Editor's Note: The NewsHour incorrectly reported that one out of every eight working-age Americans died from excessive drinking between 2015 in 2019. Instead, one of every eight deaths among working-age Americans was related to alcohol.
Drug overdoses and the opioid epidemic have devastated the country for the past two decades, taking far too many lives. But alcohol use and abuse is a huge problem that far gets less attention. As John Yang reports, a new study documents just how big a toll it is taking on American lives.
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