Middle-aged men make up majority of alcohol poisoning deaths

Middle-aged white men—not teenagers—made up the majority of alcohol poisoning deaths in the United States from 2010 to 2012, according to a report by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Researchers found that there were 2,200 alcohol poisoning deaths a year, which averaged to about six deaths a day. Most of the dead, 76 percent, were adults ages 35 to 64. Six percent were older than 64.