Principles of Economics
An economist approach to the problem of alcohol abuse would first start with the opportunity cost. This problem results from society spending millions of dollars each year on the consumption involving alcohol. Federal estimates for the costs of alcohol abuse come perilously close to fiction - or even fraud. The wildly escalating estimates cited by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) betrays a soft underbelly of accounting assumptions. The latest estimate of over 148 billion dollars is indefensible in terms of modern accounting principles Prof. David J. Hanson, Ph.D. (1997). This cost does not reflect the cost of emotion, when a drunk driver kills an innocent person or the abusing parent to their child can last a life time.
Alcohol abuse not only does massive amounts of damage to everyone around it but also can do even more damage to your body. Alcohol poisoning leads to health costs, medication, going to therapy. The costs transfer over into the work environment leading to production losses and loses to close friends. Not only are you losing your health but you can lose a child from premature death. Alcohol abuse can lead to the marginal principle of keeping hospitals staff one hour longer on the weekend due to higher alcohol related problems after midnight. How can we stop alcohol abuse?

Solutions to Alcohol Abuse

First, make things simpler and focus on the problem, there’s too much alcohol available and it’s being abused. Solution, limit the amount available. This would first start with isolating the variables, going into an alcohol store and measuring the amount ordered then cutting the order in half while multiplying prices by two. Now we have less supply and less demand. This limit will set off a trend around the community and start to lower the abuse of alcohol.
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