Lesson 29: Alcohol and You - Slide 5
Alcohol Leads To Harm To Others
- Traffic accidents involving alcohol killed more than 16,000 people in the US in 1997
- 1 in 4 victims of violent crime or 2.7 million victims per year reports that the offender had been drinking alcohol prior to committing the crime
- The estimated economic
costs of heavy alcohol
consumption in the US was
$185 billion for 1998 alone
Notes:
Pg. 71, “Assessment of Addictive Behaviors,” Second Edition, Edited by Dennis M. Donovan and G. Alan Marlatt, The Guilford Press, New York, 2005.
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