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Some Native Americans in The United States have had difficulty with the use of alcohol. Among contemporany Native Americans and Alaska Natives, 11.7% of all deaths are alcohol-realted. By comparison about 5.9 percent of global death are attributable to alcohol consumption.

A survey of death certificates from 1999 and 2013 showed the deaths among Native Americans due to alcohol are about four times as common as in the general US population and are often due to traffic collitions and liver desease with homicide and suicide. Deaths related to alcohol among Native Americans are more common in men and among Northern Plains Indians

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                    1 in 10 Native American Deaths alcohol realted