Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Study Details High Cost of Underage Drinking
According to a recent study, underage drinking costs the United States nearly $62 billion a year. Published in the July 2006 edition of the Journal of Studies on Alcohol, the study notes that underage drinking leads to nearly 3,200 deaths each year.
"The problems caused by underage drinking are a devastating tidal wave of alcohol harm," observes Dr. Ted Miller, director of the Public Research Institute of the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation (PIRE) and the study's lead author.
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For further information about the study, see PIRE's news release at http://www.pire.org/detail2.asp?core=38213&cms=114.
The study's state by state breakdown of underage drinking costs is available at http://www.iiaaonline.org/profiles.php.
