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.
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- Estimates of Economic Costs of Alcohol and Drug Abuse and Mental Illness, 1985 and 1988Rice DP, Kelman S, Miller LS. Public Health Reports. 106(3), 280-291.Date: 1991 (archived)