Alcohol impacts our health more than you might think. Here's how.
Learn how proven strategies reduce excessive alcohol use and related harms.
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- You can use this tool to check your drinking.
- Drink Less, Be Your Best encourages people to drink less to improve their health and their life.
- These proven strategies have been shown to reduce excessive alcohol use and related harms.
- You can protect yourself and others from alcohol-related harms with these prevention tips.
- These proven strategies can reduce underage drinking and support young people and families.
- Using alcohol with other substances affects our health. Here's how to prevent harmful impacts.
- Learn about the deaths from excessive alcohol use in the United States.
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These proven strategies have been shown to reduce excessive alcohol use and related harms.
The CDC Alcohol Program's mission and supported activities.
- Excessive alcohol use harms our health and well-being. These data show the impact it has.
- Excessive alcohol use is responsible for more than 140,000 deaths in the United States each year.
- Learn how a small increase in the price of cheap alcohol could save lives.
- Resources that states and communities can use to understand and prevent excessive drinking.
- These tools can be used to measure the impact of excessive alcohol use and related harms.
- How the Drink Less, Be Your Best campaign can empower people to drink less and be their best.
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The effects of underage drinking and ways to prevent related harms.
Understand the recommended limits on alcohol use and moderate drinking.
Recent findings
- MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report / Vol. 73 / No. 8 / P. 154–161