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Annual Total Binge Drinks Consumed by U.S. Adults, 2015

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Introduction Binge drinking (four or more drinks for women, five or more drinks for men on an occasion) accounts for more than half of the 88,000 U.S. deaths resulting from excessive drinking annually. Adult binge drinkers do so frequently...

State-Specific Prevalence of Tobacco Product Use among Adults

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Summary What is already known about this topic? Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable morbidity and mortality in the United States. Despite recent declines in cigarette smoking prevalence, the tobacco product landscape has shifted...

Current Cigarette Smoking among US Adults

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Summary What is already known about this topic? The U.S. Surgeon General has concluded that the burden of death and disease from tobacco use in the United States is overwhelmingly caused by cigarettes and other combusted tobacco products...

Overdose Deaths Related to Fentanyl and Its Analogs

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Summary What is already known about this topic? Illicitly manufactured fentanyl has become a significant contributor to unintentional overdose deaths in the United States. What is added by this report? Approximately 90% of unintentional...

New Data on Opioid Use and Prescribing in the United States

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The United States is in the midst of an opioid overdose epidemic. Between 1999 and 2010, prescription opioid–related overdose deaths increased substantially in parallel with increased prescribing of opioids. In 2015, opioid-involved drug...