Excessive Alcohol Use Deaths Increased In Minnesota In 2020

Nearly 1,000 Minnesotans died from alcohol use in 2020, with the COVID-19 pandemic likely playing a factor in the increased number of alcohol-related deaths. 
That'saccording to the Minnesota Department of Health(MDH), which on Thursdayreleased preliminary dataon preventable deaths from alcohol use for last year. 
MDH says 992 people died in 2020 from alcohol use last year, noting preliminary data suggests factors related to the pandemic "may have boosted a decades-long trend of increasing numbers of alcohol-attributable deaths in Minnesota."

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