N° 129 – February 2014
Monthly Electronic Newsletter of Sertox (Latin-American Portal of Toxicology) – Year 11

When it comes to alcohol-related mortality, it still doesn’t look good for Latin and North American men, who account for pretty much all of the nearly 80,000 deaths that occur in their countries each year, a new review from a World Health Organization (WHO) branch has found. See:  Male victims make up 84 percent of the national average of 79,456 alcohol-related deaths, study. See also: Alcohol and mortality in Russia: prospective observational study of 151,000 adults and 500,000 lethal US collisions finds no amount of drinking safe before getting behind the wheel, study. The logo of this number is related to binge drinke.