HOUSTON, Aug 15 (NNN-AGENCIES) – U.S. state of New Mexico, has the highest rate of alcohol-related deaths in the country, the state’s Department of Health announced yesterday.
The department said, a new study by the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, looked at data over four years ending in 2015. Researchers found that people from New Mexico died, related to alcohol, at a rate of 52.3 per 100,000 people. That was almost twice the U.S. average of 27.4.
The state that ranked close to New Mexico was Montana with a death rate of 37.4, said the research.
“Not only are we fighting to reverse life-threatening alcohol use, we are also fighting a stress-inducing pandemic, that is contributing to increased alcohol consumption,” local media quoted New Mexico Department of Health Secretary, Kathy Kunkel, as saying. “We must use every tool available to reduce alcohol-related death and years of potential life lost due to excessive alcohol use,” she added.
To help with this issues, experts recommend limiting the places where alcohol can be bought, as well as, limiting days and hours of alcohol sales to help bring down these numbers, according to the research.
