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Economic Cost |
1992 ($ millions) |
1998 (Projected)($ millions) |
Health care expenditures |
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|
Alcohol use disorders: treatment, prevention, and support |
5,573 |
7,466 |
Medical consequences of alcohol consumption |
13,247 |
18,872 |
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Total |
18,820 |
26,338 |
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Productivity impacts |
|
|
Lost productivity due to alcohol-related illness |
69,209 |
87,622 |
lost future earnings due to premature deaths[b] |
31,327 |
36,499 |
Lost productivity due to alcohol-related crimes |
6,461 |
10,085 |
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Total |
106,997 |
134,206 |
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|
|
|
Other impacts on society |
|
|
Motor vehicle crashes |
13,619 |
15,744 |
Crime |
6,312 |
6,328 |
Fire destruction |
1,590 |
1,537 |
Social welfare administration |
683 |
484 |
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Total |
22,204 |
24,093 |
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|
|
|
|
|
Total costs |
148,021 |
184,636 |
SOURCES: TENTH SPECIAL REPORT TO CONGRESS ON ALCOHOL AND HEALTH FROM THE SECRETARY OF HUMAN SERVIECS (June 2000), DHHS Publication No. 00-1583. Adapted from Harwood, H., Updating Estimates of the Economic costs of Alcohol Abuse in the United States: Estimates, Update Methods, and Data, report prepared by the Lewin Group for the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, 2000; and Harwood, H., Fountain., and Livermore, G., The Economic Costs of Alcohol and Drug Abuse in the United States 1992, report prepared for the National Institute on Drug Abuse and National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institute of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, NIH Publication No. 98-4327, Rockville, MD: National Institutes of Health, 1998.
[a] The authors estimated the economic costs of alcohol abuse for 1992 and projected those estimates forward to 1998, adjusting for inflation, population growth, and other fatcors. Detailed tables can be found in http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/economic-2000/.
[b] Present discounted value of future earnings calculated using a 6-percent discount rate.