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Paying the tab: The costs and benefits of alcohol control

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Cook, PJ
Published in: Paying the Tab: The Costs and Benefits of Alcohol Control
June 27, 2011

What drug provides Americans with the greatest pleasure and the greatest pain? The answer, hands down, is alcohol. The pain comes not only from drunk driving and lost lives but also addiction, family strife, crime, violence, poor health, and squandered human potential. Young and old, drinkers and abstainers alike, all are affected. Every American is paying for alcohol abuse. Paying the Tab, the first comprehensive analysis of this complex policy issue, calls for broadening our approach to curbing destructive drinking. Over the last few decades, efforts to reduce the societal costs--curbing youth drinking and cracking down on drunk driving--have been somewhat effective, but woefully incomplete. In fact, American policymakers have ignored the influence of the supply side of the equation. Beer and liquor are far cheaper and more readily available today than in the 1950s and 1960s. © 2007 by Princeton University Press. All Rights Reserved.

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Cook, P. J. (2011). Paying the tab: The costs and benefits of alcohol control. Paying the Tab: The Costs and Benefits of Alcohol Control.
Cook, P. J. “Paying the tab: The costs and benefits of alcohol control.” Paying the Tab: The Costs and Benefits of Alcohol Control, June 27, 2011.
Cook PJ. Paying the tab: The costs and benefits of alcohol control. Paying the Tab: The Costs and Benefits of Alcohol Control. 2011 Jun 27;
Cook, P. J. “Paying the tab: The costs and benefits of alcohol control.” Paying the Tab: The Costs and Benefits of Alcohol Control, June 2011.
Cook PJ. Paying the tab: The costs and benefits of alcohol control. Paying the Tab: The Costs and Benefits of Alcohol Control. 2011 Jun 27;

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Paying the Tab: The Costs and Benefits of Alcohol Control

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June 27, 2011