Is poverty causing more alcohol-related deaths?

Many people love a cold beer and a happy hour, but a troubling new study on alcohol-related mortality has many health experts warning that it may be time to rethink our relationship with alcohol.

Published in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, the study says the rate of deaths involving alcohol has risen more than 50% over the last two decades, from 16.9 deaths per 100,000 in 1999 to 25.5 deaths per 100,000 in 2017.