Fire Chief Sam DiGiovannaSpecial to the Valley NewsApril marks National Alcohol Awareness Month, a time to highlight the dangers of alcohol misuse. Alcohol contributed to more than 200 diseases and injury-related health conditions, ranging from liver diseases, road injuries, and violence, to cancers, cardiovascular diseases, suicides, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS, according to The National Institutes of Health, which offers additional facts and statistics about alcohol misuse in the United States online at https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Dietary Guidelines for Alcohol defined drinking in moderation as one drink or less in a day for women and two drinks or less in a day for men. The NIH defines a standard drink as having about 14 grams
