Intoxication risks of alcohol

[Anonymous]

Intoxication is the most common cause of alcohol-related problems, leading to injuries and premature deaths. As a result, intoxication accounts for two-thirds of the years of life lost from drinking. Alcohol is responsible for:

    * 30% of road accidents
    * 44% of fire injuries
    * 34% of falls and drownings
    * 16% of child abuse cases
    * 12% of suicides
    * 10% of industrial accidents

As well as deaths, short-term effects of alcohol result in illness and loss of work productivity (e.g. hangovers, drink driving offences). In addition, alcohol contributes to criminal behaviour - in Australia over 70% of prisoners convicted of violent assaults have drunk alcohol before committing the offence and more than 40% of domestic violence incidents involve alcohol.

[Syd]

This statement has a 73% chance of being accurate +/- 4%, 19 times out of 20.