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Sixty percent of U.S. women have at least one drink a year. Among women who drink, 13 percent have more than seven drinks per week. An estimated 5.3 million women in the United States drink in a way that threatens their health, safety, and general well-being. A strong case can be made that heavy drinking is more risky for women than men: Fewer women than men drink. However, among the heaviest drinkers, women equal or surpass men in the number of problems that result from their drinking. For example, female alcoholics have death rates 50 to 100 percent higher than those of male alcoholics, including deaths from suicides, alcohol-related accidents, heart disease and stroke, and liver cirrhosis. Found in listed link below National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/brochurewomen/women.htm#drinking
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