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Old 09-10-2003, 09:44 PM
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Re: $53 Billion Dollar Problem

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Originally posted by DeltAlum

Given traffic accidents, illness, academic failure, suicide and crime, they estimate that this problem costs Americans $53 Billion (yes, with a "B") dollars a year.
I'm not sure that academic failure, suicide and crime can be directly tied to alcohol use. Sure, alcohol definitely affects those -- but there's no saying that a student wouldn't have committed suicide even if he wasn't having alcohol abuse issues, you know?
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