Paying the Tab: The Costs and Benefits of Alcohol Control

by Philip J. Cook

Book Overview

What drug provides Americans with the greatest pleasure and the greatest pain? The answer, hands down, is alcohol. The pain comes not only from drunk driving and lost lives but also addiction, family strife, crime, violence, poor health, and squandered human potential. Young and old, drinkers and abstainers alike, all are affected. Every American is paying for alcohol abuse.

Paying the Tab, the first comprehensive analysis of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691125201
• ISBN13: 9780691125206
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.6" x 9.4"