B.C. No. 1 province for hospitalization caused solely by alcohol abuse: federal report

B.C. had nearly 15,000 hospital admissions in 2015-16 due to alcohol abuse, making it No. 1 among the provinces in that category, according to a new federal report.
High volumes of alcohol sales and heavy drinking are related to high hospitalization rates. While the national age-standardized rate for hospital admissions entirely caused by alcohol was 239 per 100,000 population, in B.C. it was 349. (The three territories had higher rates than the provinces.) Although the opioid addiction crisis h