CDC: Alcohol poisoning kills 6 a day, mostly middle-aged men

Tuesday, January 06, 2015 | 4:10 PM    

NEW YORK (AP) — To the surprise of even health officials, it turns out that most deaths from drinking too much involve middle-aged adults — not teens or college kids.

A report Tuesday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found six Americans die each day from alcohol poisoning. CDC officials said three-quarters of those deaths are adults aged 35 to 64, and most are men. CDC officials said they thought more would be younger.

The CDC searched death records from 2010 through 2012. Researchers focused on people who died after a single episode of binge drinking. Too much alcohol can shut down areas of the brain that control breathing, heart rate and temperature.

The report found an average of 2,221 alcohol poisoning deaths a year.

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Businesswoman charged with selling illegal rubbing alcohol

A Chinese businesswoman who is charged with having illegally labelled items marked ‘Benjamin Rubbing Alcohol’ in her shop will stand trial on April 16 next year.

Yu Wen of Spanish Town, St Catherine, is charged with breaches of the Trademark Act and the Custom Excise Act.

When the matter was mentioned in court on Tuesday, it was revealed that the forensic certificate is now on file.

As a result, the defence and the Crown agreed that the matter can now be tried.

Allegations are that in February last year, police personnel from the Organised Crime Investigation Division swooped down on the accused woman’s business place.

The detectives went into the establishment and removed several boxes of rubbing alcohol, marked ‘Benjamin’s’.

Further checks revealed that the products were never labelled or manufactured by the company. She was subsequently charged.

Wen is being represented by attorney-at-law Lancelot Clarke Jr.
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Businesswoman charged with selling illegal rubbing alcohol