Data from the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey revealed that nearly 5.4 million people in the U.S. during the 2021 to 2022 study period were treated for an alcohol-specific cause, such as acute alcohol intoxication or alcohol addiction.
The CDC report found that nearly 4 million men visited emergency departments from 2021 to 2022, which sits slightly above double the almost 2 million in 2003. For women, alcohol-related emergency room visits rose from 701,000 in 2003 to nearly 1.4 million in 2021 to 2022.
The report only included alcohol-specific causes by tracking specific medical codes for issues that are completely due to excessive alcohol consumption with no other factors, according to a CDC spokesperson.
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Alcohol-specific causes include various emergency conditions from chronic alcohol misuse,
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