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CDC Finds Alcohol Taking Deadly Toll on Native Americans
September 2, 2008

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Research Summary

A study of death certificates recorded between 2001 and 2005 found that about 12 percent of all deaths among Native Americans were related to alcohol, All Headline News reported Aug. 30.

The alcohol-related mortality rate among Native Americans was three times greater than among the general population, according to the report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Alcohol-related deaths among Native Americans were most prevalent in the Northern Plains states.

Alcohol-related causes of death included traffic accidents and liver disease, each of which caused about one-quarter of all fatalities.

Roughly two-thirds of the Native Americans who died from alcohol-related causes were men, and about the same proportion were under age 50.

The study was published in the Aug. 29, 2008 issue of the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 

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Posted by Carolyn Reuben, L.Ac. on 08 Sep 08 04:24 PM EDT
Tagging onto John French's comments, I encourage the treatment community to focus on biochemical repair using proven successful treatment of alcoholism with correcting core malnourishment and abnormal sugar metabolism. Read Seven Weeks to Sobriety for an excellent guidebook for clinical miracles. You don't want just nondrinkers who die early of disease, you want healthy people at the end of treatment. Joan Mathews-Larson tells you how to achieve that.

Posted by John French (Part Indian part Irish) on 03 Sep 08 09:33 AM EDT
Anyone who looks -- not just epidemiologists -- knows the extent of the problem. It is enormous. The solution is not in more precisely quantifying it. The solution is to provide funding for successful treatment and prevention, and to continue the genetic research that one day might reduce the problem in susceptible populations

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