September 11, 2024

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Excessive alcohol use can have immediate and long-term health risks.
These downloadable graphics can be used to promote awareness of alcohol-related health problems and deaths, and to drive to CDC tools for adults to check their drinking.
Organizations, communities, and states can download and share these graphics online, on social media, and in presentations to increase awareness.

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CDC tools to check alcohol use

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3 human figures with text "Want to check your alcohol use? This quick assessment can help you check, visit www.cdc.gov/alcohol/checkyourdrinking" — Take this quick assessment to check your alcohol use: www.cdc.gov/alcohol/checkyourdrinking.

Image of gauge with text "Want to check your alcohol use? This quick assessment can help you check." — Take this quick assessment to check your alcohol use: www.cdc.gov/alcohol/checkyourdrinking.

General alcohol use

Dietary Guidelines for Americans on Alcohol: limit to 1 drink a day for women or 2 drinks a day for men, or nondrinking. — Limiting alcohol in these ways improves health and well-being.

Graphic showing the volume and strength of different types of alcohol. — Know how much alcohol you drink using the U.S. standard drink sizes.

Infographic with a pie chart showing that 9 in 10 people who drink excessively are not dependent on alcohol. — Most people who drink excessively are not dependent on alcohol.

Infographic showing that a small percentage of U.S. adults who drink consume more than half of the alcoholic drinks. — A small number of U.S. adults drink a large amount of alcohol.

Infographic showing the cost of excessive alcohol use. — Excessive alcohol use has high costs to the U.S. economy.

Alcohol-related deaths

Human figures over a U.S. map with "178,000" on top, the number of people who die each year from excessive alcohol use. — About 178,000 people die from excessive alcohol use each year.

Arrow increasing above human figures. Text reads "Deaths on the rise in the U.S. from excessive alcohol use." — Deaths from excessive alcohol use are on the rise in the U.S.

Human figures in shape of clock with text "488 deaths each day from excessive alcohol use: about 20 people every hour." — About 488 people die each day from excessive alcohol use.

Human figures in shape of clock, with text "That's about 20 people per hour," meaning those who die each day from excessive alcohol use. — About 20 people die every hour from excessive alcohol use.

Five human figures, one shaded. Text reads "1 in 5 deaths among U.S. adults ages 20–49 is from excessive alcohol use." — Excessive alcohol use leads to 1 in 5 deaths among U.S. adults 20 to 49.

Alcohol-related health risks

Human figures and alcohol bottles, with text "Over 20,000 people die from alcohol-related cancers each year in the U.S." — Drinking less alcohol can lower cancer risk.

Text "Alcohol increases the risk of throat cancer, colon cancer, breast cancer in women, liver cancer, and more." — Alcohol use can increase the risk of cancer.

Two friends looking at phone together with the text "Rethink your drink to lower your risk of cancer." — Drink less to lower the risk of cancer.

Signs of alcohol poisoning: not being able to wake up, irregular or slow breathing, vomiting, seizures, low body temperature. — Alcohol poisoning is a life-threatening, medical emergency.

Underage drinking

Teens on laptop and phone with text, "U.S. teens encounter alcohol ads regularly. Exposure to alcohol ads can fuel underage drinking." — Seeing alcohol ads can change how teens perceive drinking, making it seem more positive and normalizing it.

Digital technology icons in form of bottle with text, "Over half of teens are exposed to ads promoting alcohol while streaming videos, watching TV, browsing the internet, or at the movies." — Most teens see alcohol ads in many common places.

Teen with digital technology. Text reads, "More alcohol ad exposure, more underage drinking risk. Teens' exposure to alcohol ads increases risk of earlier & more drinking." — The more alcohol advertising teens see, the more likely they are to start drinking or to binge drink.

Teen looking at digital screens in the form of an alcohol bottle with text, "Survey finds Hispanic teens have 60% greater chance of seeing ads promoting alcohol than White teens." — Most teens see alcohol ads, but the chance of exposure isn't the same for all racial/ethnic groups.

Parent with arm around child. Text reads "Adolescents are 4 times more likely to drink alcohol if their parents binge drink." — Adolescents are more likely to drink alcohol if their parents binge drink.

Alcohol and other drug use

Text reads, "1 in 4 people who binge drink also report other substance use in the past month." — People who binge drink also use other substances.

Text reads, "People who binge drink are two times more likely to use other substances than non-binge drinkers." — People who binge drink are twice as likely to use other substances.

People with text "More than half of the 4.2 million people who misuse prescription opioids in the U.S. also binge drink." — Many individuals who misuse prescription opioids also binge drink.

Alcohol and pills crossed out with text "Drinking alcohol while using opioids increases the risk of overdose and death." — Avoid combining alcohol and opioids to prevent overdose and death.

Additional resources

Visit the Drink Less, Be Your Best campaign resources.

September 11, 2024

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National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP); About the Division of Population Health; CDC Alcohol Program