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Preventing Alcohol-Related Harms
Learn how proven strategies reduce excessive alcohol use and related harms.
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Do you drink too much alcohol? This quiz can help you decide if you want to drink less.
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.
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Learn about the deaths from excessive alcohol use in the United States.
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Preventing Excessive Alcohol Use with Proven Strategies
These proven strategies have been shown to reduce excessive alcohol use and related harms.
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The CDC Alcohol Program’s mission and supported activities.
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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.
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Understand the recommended limits on alcohol use and moderate drinking.
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Recent findings
MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report / Vol. 73 / No. 8 / P. 154–161