List of deaths through alcohol

14th President of the United States, Franklin Pierce, died of long-term alcohol use in 1869.

This is a list of the most notable people in Category:Alcohol-related deaths who died of short- and/or long-term effects of alcohol consumption. Deaths caused indirectly by alcohol, such as combined drug intoxication, or driving under the influence, are not listed here.

The Journal of the American Medical Association defines alcoholism, or alcohol use disorder, as "a primary, chronic disease characterized by impaired control over drinking, preoccupation with the drug alcohol, use of alcohol despite adverse consequences, and distortions in thinking, most notably denial."[1] The majority of people in this list died from causes brought on by alcoholism.

  1. ^ Morse, Robert M.; Flavin, Daniel K. (26 August 1992). "JAMA – Abstract: The definition of alcoholism. The Joint Committee of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence and the American Society of Addiction Medicine to Study the Definition and Criteria for the Diagnosis of Alcoholism, August 26, 1992, Morse and Flavin 268 (8): 1012". JAMA. 268 (8): 1012–1014. doi:10.1001/jama.1992.03490080086030. Retrieved 2008-05-21.