CT had the nation's highest jump in alcohol-related deaths. Why?

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CT had the nation's highest jump in alcohol-related deaths. Why?

In 1993, Newport mother Dorrie Carolan founded Parent Connection to support parents whose children were battling addiction after her son died of a prescription drug overdose. In the decades that followed, her organization has faced a new enemy, one of the oldest recreational drugs: alcohol.  From 2012 to 2022, the alcohol-related death rate in Connecticut has nearly tripled from 4.5 to 12 per 100,000 people, a 166.67% increase, the highest perce…