Here’s a city list that might be good or bad depending on your propensity to consume adult beverages. Financial news & opinion site 24/Wall St. recently reviewed data from the CDC (Centers for Disease Control & Prevention) to identify the metropolitan areas with the highest levels of binge & heavy drinking within each state. Next, they identified the “drunkest city” in each state for their report. According to the report, excessive drinking claims the lives of tens of thousands of Americans each year and is responsible for about 1 in every 10 deaths among working age adults. They also cited a recent CDC study that found that excessive alcohol consumption cost the U.S. economy an estimated $250 billion in 2010. This was primarily due to lost productivity, medical bills, and motor vehicle accidents.
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