Crampton, EricBurgess, MattTaylor, Brad2015-12-130028-8446http://hdl.handle.net/1885/71764Studies based on a cost of illness method frequently assert large social costs from a variety of risky activities, the harms from which most typically fall upon the risk-taker himself. Many of these costs are inadmissible in a standard economic framework; consequently, figures derived by the cost of illness method are not comparable with other economic notions of cost and are of very limited policy use.Keywords: absenteeism; adverse outcome; alcohol consumption; alcohol intoxication; article; cost of illness; crime; disability; drunken driving; falling; health care cost; health care policy; high risk behavior; human; mortality; productivity; public health serviceWhat's in a cost? Comparing economic and public health measures of alcohol's social costs20122016-02-24