Talk about the epidemiology of alcoholic liver disease.

One of the leading causes of global burden of disease and injury, it is the most widely abused substances worldwide 100,000 deaths/year is US, causes other conditions (psychotic, cardiomyopathy, amnesic syndrome, liver disease) In US it is the leading cause of death due to liver failure (in lebanon second cause) *it is a chronic disease - reliant in ethanol.