On its website, CBS News (8/17, Castillo, 5.42M) reported that, according to a study published online Aug. 1 in the journal Substance Use and Misuse and conducted by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the lager beer “Budweiser is the number one beverage behind alcohol-related” visits to the emergency department (ED). The study of 105 “patients who visited the Johns Hopkins Hospital emergency department in Baltimore on Friday and Saturday nights between April 2010 and June 2011” revealed that 15% “admitted to drinking Budweiser” before their visit to the ED.
Time (8/17, Davidson, 13.36M) reported that that the malt liquor “Steel Reserve Malt Liquor came in second to Budweiser.” Notably, strong malt liquors represented “a full 46% of the alcohol consumed by” patients visiting the ED. The malt liquors Colt 45 and Bud Ice, took third and fourth place, respectively, followed by Bud Light and the discount-brand vodka Barton’s.
The Huffington Post (8/16, 11.54M) quoted study researcher David Jernigan, PhD, director of the Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, who said, “Recent studies reveal that nearly a third of injury visits to Level I trauma centers were alcohol-related,” often the result of excessive drinking.
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