“My name is Jennifer, I'm an alcoholic”. - This is how Jennifer introduces herself to the meeting at ‘Alcoholics Anonymous’. Jennifer, 36 yrs, has gone through turmoil in her life as she hit rock bottom and went through hell which she had created for herself abusing alcohol all through her adolescence and adulthood. She has even passed out on several occasions when she had been on alcohol binge. Jennifer has been lucky to be able to get out of alcohol addiction. She is now living a peaceful life with her kids.

John was in the emergency room last week, disoriented, his speech slurring, walking unsteadily, lacking judgment, and losing sense of the external world. John was intoxicated with alcohol. It was a clear presentation of acute alcohol poisoning. His blood alcohol level was more than 5mg/dl. He was given continuous intravenous fluids with multivitamins to be able to get him back to normal health.

The above two scenarios are examples of what alcohol can do to a person.

According to the new CDC report released in January 2015, on an average, about 6 people die of alcohol poisoning everyday in the US. 76% of deaths due to alcohol poisoning are among adults between the age of 35 and 64. About 76% of those who die from alcohol poisoning are men.

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