Health Issues Related to Alcohol Cost Much For New York State

Though legal everybody knows that abusing alcohol is harmful, but still people are doing it. If we ask why? The answer might be unknown. The thing is, every one has their own reason for starting and continuing a habit. But the funniest thing is among numerous awful effects, these abusers will never try to find a single thing to leave their habit and to save their lives. The result, health problems and sudden deaths resting their families in great sorrow.

These habits of drinking alcohol and abusing drugs, though personal, not only empty the pockets of abusers but also make a big hole for the nations wealth, which in their absence might have used for developing some useful things for the public.

For instance, The Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield has roughly estimated the cost of alcohol related health problems to the US economy. They figured out some astonishing figures which costs $2 billion a year for the New York state and around the nation it is costing $144 billion a year. The report also focused on the death rate and found that alcohol is killing nearly 79,000 people every year, ranking third among preventable causes of death.

This cost is meant for one single nation and if it is taken worldwide it may cost millions of dollars, which is more than enough to eradicate poverty from the entire world.