More than 70 percent of the estimated costs of alcohol abuse were attributed to lost productivity ($134.2 billion), most of which resulted from alcohol-related illness or premature death. The remaining estimated costs included health care expenditures to treat alcohol use disorders and the medical consequences of alcohol consumption ($26.3 billion, or 14.3 percent of the total); property and administrative costs of alcohol-related motor vehicle crashes ($15.7 billion, or 8.5 percent); and various criminal justice system costs of alcohol-related crime ($6.3 billion, or 3.4 percent). A breakout of the estimated costs for 1992 and the associated projections for 1998 are shown in the table.
