Millennium Hangover: Keeping Score on Alcohol (1999-2000)

Drug Strategies prepares Keeping Score annually to capture the dimensions of the nation's drug abuse problems and to assess the impact of federal spending to address these problems. Keeping Score also identifies strategies and programs that are making a difference in communities across the country.

Keeping Score 1999 focuses on America's most pervasive drug problem: alcohol. To underscore alcohol's far reaching effects on society, it examines drinking from many different perspectives including public health, criminal justice, the workplace, the impact on children and young adults, treatment and prevention. Among the nation's 113 million drinkers, 10 million are underage and 33 million binge drink (have five or more drinks at a time). An estimated 14 million Americans need treatment for alcohol problems. Alcohol-related deaths outnumber deaths related to illicit drugs four to one, and accidents, health problems, crime and lost productivity due to alcohol abuse cost $167 billion each year.

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Publication Year: 1999

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