The high cost of excessive drinking can be tallied in billions of dollars for health costs, lost productivity, criminal justice expenses and property damage, a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study found.
Nationwide the cost of binge drinking was $223.5 billion in 2006, according to the study, with a median cost of $2.9 billion to each state and the District of Columbia.
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The CDC calls its mini-reports "VitalSigns."
Here is something from their latest:
Accidental deaths among women who overuse prescription drugs are rapidly rising, with a fivefold increase in deaths from abuse of opioid painkillers leading the way, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports in its latest Morbidity and Mortality Weekly report. In 2010, there were 15,323 deaths among women from drug overdoses—a rate of 9.8 for every 100,000 women.
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