Women drinking alcohol as much as men
It’s not about if women should drink or not. It’s all about sensitizing women about alcohol abuse rather than alcohol consumption.
This is because a new analysis has found that women are catching up with men at an unprecedented rate.
Historically, alcohol consumption and alcohol abuse have been more commonly associated with men than women.
Alcohol is one of the leading risk factors for global disease, together with smoking, pollution, and high blood pressure.
In 2010, alcohol accounted for 5% of deaths worldwide and was the leading risk factor in Eastern Europe, Latin America, and southern sub-Saharan Africa.
In 2012, alcohol accounted for 3.3 million deaths, which is 5.9 percent of the global number of deaths.
In the United States, alcohol is currently listed as the fourth preventable cause of death by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA).
It means, in future women will be perhaps affected by the same harmful effects of alcohol as men, and hence it is the need of the hour to have women-specific information and educational campaigns in order to reduce the negative effects of alcohol consumption.
