Abstract
Alcohol misuse generates costs to society additional to those which the purchaser pays. The major externalities are discussed (excluding mortality and morbidity costs dealt with in another entry), and systematic estimates provided of their magnitude, based on Australian and Canadian studies.
This is a reproduction of Brian Easton, Alcohol Consumption: The Social and Economic Impacts, Editor(s): Stella R. Quah, International Encyclopedia of Public Health (Second Edition), Academic Press, 2017, Pages 58–61, ISBN 9780128037089, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-803678-5.00015-1.