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The per capita alcohol consumption of beer in the United States has gradually decreased since the 1980s. In 2021, per capita alcohol consumption of beer was **** gallons of ethanol (pure alcohol).

Binge drinking

Binge drinking is defined as five or more drinks for men and four or more drinks for women within a two-hour period. The states with the highest prevalence of binge drinking are North Dakota, Iowa, and South Dakota. In 2023, around ** percent of adults in North Dakota binge drank in the past month. Utah had the lowest rates of binge drinking at that time.

Alcohol and health

Long-term health risks from excessive alcohol use include heart disease, stroke, liver disease, cancer, as well as mental health problems such as depression and anxiety. Since the year 2000, the death rate from alcohol-related liver cirrhosis in the U.S. has increased. Liver cirrhosis results from long-term damage to the liver, perhaps from alcohol abuse, that results in normal tissue being replaced with scar tissue and therefore causing the liver to not function properly.