The Burden of Disease and the Cost of Illness Attributable to Alcohol Drinking—Results of a National Study

Abstract

Our results confirm that alcohol is an important health risk factor in Portugal and a heavy economic burden for the health system, with hepatic diseases ranking first as a source of burden of disease attributable to alcohol.

Impacts of Alcoholism in Public Health: A Systematic Review

“…Adolescents who engage in frequent alcohol use are most likely to engage in frequent simultaneous alcohol and marijuana use [40]. In addition, the costs of obesity, tobacco, and alcohol and found a similar results, with the exception that the costs of obesity were far higher than either tobacco and alcohol, because of a much higher prevalence of obesity in the United States [48].…”

“…In the other hand, education level is negatively correlated with excessive alcohol consumption. In addition, a positive correlation between alcohol consumption and being a smoker was demonstrated [48]. Also, alcohol was involved more frequently in violent and public disorder crimes than in property crimes [22].…”

“…Alcohol consumption has negative effects on society because of alcohol-related mortality and morbidity [48], decreasing users' health and related people's safety and comfort. For example, the numbers of deaths associated with AUD were considerable: we estimated that approximately 53, 000 male deaths and 12, 000 female deaths in the United States in 2005 were associated with AUD [49].…”

“…Alcoholic beverages have been used since the beginning of recorded history [48]. Alcohol consumption has negative effects on society because of alcohol-related mortality and morbidity [48], decreasing users' health and related people's safety and comfort.…”

“…In fact, alcohol problems continue to present a major challenge to medicine, social peace, and public health, in part because population-based public health approaches have been neglected in favor of approaches centered on the individual which tend to be more palliative than preventative [86,48]. Obtaining a clear understanding of the type of clinical features that begin to emerge soon after drinking commences, therefore, would be useful for designing strategies to help control drinking and prevent the escalation of AUD [87,71].…”