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在美国约有10,600,000成年人为酒精中毒者。另外还有7,300,000人为酗酒者,但被捕或其它意外事件并非是由于饮酒引起的。另估计有4,000,000名14～17岁的青年人已成为酗酒者。公共卫生部门推断属于酗酒肇事,致伤致死,包括火灾、坠楼、溺水、杀人、自杀、家庭虐待和其它暴力以及工业和交通意外,包括故意、非故意卷入到犯罪事故、自杀的事件中的,估计大约占美国成年人酗酒受损害者的三分之一到二分之一。
About 10,600,000 adults in the United States are alcoholics. An additional 7,300,000 are alcoholics, but arrests and other accidents are not caused by alcohol consumption. An additional 4 million young people aged 14-17 are estimated to have become alcohol abusers. Public health authorities have concluded that cases of alcoholism, fatal injuries, including fire, falls, drowning, killing, suicide, domestic abuse and other violence, as well as industrial and traffic accidents, including deliberate and unintentional involvement in crimes and suicides Estimated to account for about one-third to one-half of the U.S. adults who suffer from alcohol abuse.