Excessive drinking and resulting hangovers cost the American economy more than $220 billion a year, according to a report from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
That amounts to economic losses of about $1.90 a drink.
An estimated seventy-two per cent of the annual $220 billion loss due to excessive drinking, which equals about $160 billion, comes from decreased productivity at work.
'Americans have about 117 billion alcoholic drinks each year,' the Atlantic notes. 'Hangovers cost us about $1.37 for each drink in lost productivity.'
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