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From: suhre@trwrb.UUCP (Maurice E. Suhre)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc,net.med
Subject: Re: Drug Abuse - True Problem or Media Hype?
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Date: Thu, 2-Oct-86 12:08:19 EDT
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In article <746@scc.UUCP> steiny@scc.UUCP (Don Steiny) writes:
	...lots of previous stuff deleted...
>Alcohol is
>incompatible with holding most jobs, at least in excess.    
	This is true in some sense.  However, there are an awful
	lot of "functional" alcoholics walking around out there
	gainfully employed.
>How much
>crime in our society is a result of people stealing to support their
>alcohol habit?  
	Hard to estimate, but assuming that you consume a quart of
	hard liquor a day (this is my estimate from listening to AA
	stories), the cost is about $8-10.  Contrast this with the
	cost of supporting a cocaine or heroin habit.  Assuming that
	alcoholics and addicts are both stealing, who is stealing the
	most?
-- 
Maurice Suhre

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