Costs

Alcohol use has significant social and economic costs measured by premature deaths, poor quality of life, disability-adjusted life years, lost earnings and productivity and the burden placed on health care, enforcement and the criminal justice system. These costs, when assigned a dollar value, far exceed revenue generated from alcohol taxes and sales, and provide a clearer understanding of alcohol’s burden on society as a whole. 

  1. The External Costs of Alcohol Abuse
    Heien DM, Pittman DJ. Journal of Studies on Alcohol. 54(3), 302-307.
    Date: 1993 (archived)
  2. The Social Cost of Alcohol Abuse in Japan
    Nakamura K, Tanaka A, Takano T. Journal of Studies on Alcohol. 54(Special Supplement), 618-625.
    Date: 1993 (archived)
  3. The Economic Cost of Alcohol Abuse and Alcohol Dependence: 1990
    Rice DP. Alcohol Health and Research World. 17(1), 10-11.
    Date: 1993 (archived)
  4. Estimates of Economic Costs of Alcohol and Drug Abuse and Mental Illness, 1985 and 1988
    Rice DP, Kelman S, Miller LS. Public Health Reports. 106(3), 280-291.
    Date: 1991 (archived)
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