The number of deaths in the United States (U.S.) involving alcohol jumped 25.5 percent between 2019 and 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
April is Alcohol Awareness Month and a time to stop and think about the impact that alcohol has on daily life in California. The California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) is the principal regulator of the sale, manufacture, and distribution of alcohol in California. This month ABC will continue enforcing alcoholic beverage laws and providing education recognizing there are serious health and public safety concerns surrounding alcohol, especially when it is misused.
The number of deaths in the March 18 JAMA report reflect a sharp incline from prior years; there were 78,927 alcohol-related deaths in the U.S. in 2019 and 99,017 in 2020. These deaths also included alcohol-related motor vehicle crashes. Alcohol-related deaths made up 2.8 percent of all deaths in 2019 and three percent in 2020.
“This month ABC encourages everyone to promote safety,” said ABC Director Eric Hirata. “Help prevent alcohol-related crashes on roads, and the abuse of alcohol.”
Underage drinking is a significant public health problem in the U.S. The CDC says excessive drinking is responsible for more than 3,500 deaths and 210,000 years of potential life lost among people under age 21 each year.
Impaired driving is another issue in our nation. The CDC reports that in 2016, 10,497 people died in alcohol-impaired driving crashes, accounting for 28 percent of all traffic-related deaths in the U.S.
Beginning July 1, 2022, any alcohol server and their manager who works at an ABC licensed premises with on-sale privileges, must be trained by an approved and accredited Responsible Beverage Service (RBS) training provider, have a valid RBS certification, and pass an online ABC administered RBS exam within 60 calendar days from the first date of employment. Find an approved training provider on ABC’s RBS Portal.
Off-sale licensees and their employees are encouraged to sign up for ABC’s voluntary Licensee Education on Alcohol and Drugs training free of charge. Licensees and their employees can now take the training online, they can also sign up for training in person in a classroom setting.
Bourbon, Please…
I’m very much aware of alcohol.
I keep my Old Rip Van Winkle 25-year-old Bourbon Whiskey in my wall safe.
A shot a day keeps the Dr. away.
LoL! That didn’t work.
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I’m waiting for the government mandate to keep my mouth duct taped shut except while eating, suspension of all alcohol sales until further notice and
free antibuse pill clinics.
Anyone know what is going on with Chardonnay wine? It’s very bad now.
Did Covid cause a problem there too?
Chardonnay is one of my favorite wines. It is hard to say what is good or bad, since everyone has different taste. Do you buy the same as you did before Covid, and is it the same year? It all makes a difference, I like a buttery Chardonnay, Edna Valley has one actually named buttery, as do Cupcake, I prefer Edna, it is a little more expensive. So it depends what you like, I recently got a very good chardonnay at Grocery Outlet, Moonlit Harvest from Monterey County, I think it sells at GO for $6-8.00, but original price in the $15.00 range if I remember correctly.
I prefer green Prestone to red Zerex, hands down.
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Statistics can be cherry-picked to suit the narrative.
Just like Covid hospitalizations and deaths.
Morbidity or co-morbidity? We will never really know but just know that numbers lie.
Numbers can’t lie. But people who interpret them sometimes do. Don’t blame the math don’t blame the numbers math is just math and all people lie every last one of them All of them.
Figures don’t lie but liars figure.
Alcohol is just another method the government uses to get rich off weak minded individuals that can’t say no.
That.
Funny, I thought that was why the Biden administration opened the border to import Fentanyl.
Totally agree. Along with a lot of other things that people are too weak to deal with. Unfirntaully, the weak keep breeding and passing along their weaknesses, The US is now full of people who vote to take things away from all of us so they don’t have to do anything.
I am already aware of alcohol, thank you very much.
One of our nation’s first crises was the Whiskey Rebellion in opposition to whiskey taxes. It was serious enough that Washington had to send the militia to quell the uprising. On the political front, opposition to the whiskey tax led to the formation of the Republican Party, which overtook the Federalist Party in 1802.
Alcohol remained legal until passage of the 18th Amendment in 1919. Outlawing alcohol served to make the people who made, transported, or sold alcohol incredibly rich, or dead, or both. In 1932, the Democrat Party platform included repealing Prohibition, but in 1933, the 21st Amendment repealed the 18th Amendment by a 3 to1 bipartisan majority, with only South Carolina voting against it.
I’ll drink to that! Cheers
One Burbon … one Scotch … one beer . schaefer, when you’re havin more than one …
Johnny and Kris on Sunday morning….https://youtu.be/IRU9i9egr7A
Thank you for that, it is a really great song. This is the short version. The phrase cleanest dirty shirt to make the best of a bad situation was used a lot for a while without any attribution to Kristofferson. Few songs today are in danger of having any ideas plagiarized because they are lacking in such things as ideas.
I’ll drink to that! (Safely – on my living room couch) – Cheers!