According to a 2022 study published in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, if you've been to the ER with an injury and you are inebriated or have alcohol use disorder (AUD), you might be looking at an early death. In fact, you are five times more at risk of dying in the next 12 months when compared with the rest of the population. The researchers looked at data from 2009 to 2012 of California locals aged 10 and older who visited the ER – around 10 million ER visits — and found that out of the 262,222 people who were intoxicated or had AUD, 13,175 (5%) died within the next year.
As Sidra Goldman-Mellor, lead researcher and assistant professor in the department of public health at the University of California in Merced, told Everyday Health, "For every 100 injured patients who were intoxicated or had alcohol use disorder who came to the emergency department, 5 of them died within the next year, versus 1 out of 100 in the comparison population."
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