Alcohol is the most frequently abused drug throughout the world. In the United States, it is
consumed regularly by about half the adult population, and about 15 to 20 million people …

Alcohol use is associated with many health problems, 1, 2 along with 100,000 deaths and
an annual economic cost of $100 billion in the United States. 1 From the perspective of …

ALCOHOLISM is a major social, economic, and public health problem throughout much of
the world. In the United States alone, the annual cost of lost productivity and health …

Foreword This Journal feature begins with a case vignette highlighting a common clinical
problem. Evidence supporting various strategies is then presented, followed by a review of …

In speaking about the role of alcohol in society, Abraham Lincoln observed,“None seemed
to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing but from the abuse of a very good thing.” …

To establish a more precise use of the termalcoholism, a 23-member multidisciplinary
committee of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence and the American …

As part of an institution-wide program to enhance the education of physicians in diagnosing
and treating alcohol dependence and abuse, a comprehensive survey was conducted in …

RECOGNITION of the deleterious effects of alcohol and other drugs is not a recent
phenomenon. Over 200 years ago America's first Surgeon General, Benjamin Rush, MD …

A lcohol is consumed by millions of Americans/\annually and poses a major health problem.
JL\. Alcohol-related problems plague an estimated 18 million adult Americans, of whom 10.6 …

As this report so amply documents, the price of alcohol abuse to the American people is
appallingly high. And that price is paid by all of us. The cost to our economy has been …