The first line of the article is "One out of every eight deaths in Americans ages 20 to 64 resulted from drinking too much alcohol, according to a U.S. populati

The first line of the article is "One out of every eight deaths in Americans ages 20 to 64 resulted from drinking too much alcohol, according to a U.S. population-based study." (emphasis mine) They certainly still have the burden of demonstrating that somehow, but exclusively focusing on the particular near-synonym they used in the title seems uncharitable if you have read the first line of the article.