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The Costs of Alcohol Abuse

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Alcohol abuse costs the state $38 billion annually and causes more than 9,000 deaths. That’s according to a report by the Marin Institute, an industry watchdog group. We discuss the new study.

Guests:

Fried Whittman, specialist and program director at the Institute for the Study of Social Change at UC Berkeley

Michele Simon, research and policy director for the Marin Institute

Edward Stringham, associate professor of economics at San Jose State University

Philip Benoit, media relations director for ChooseResponsibility.org

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