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To the Editor: Dr. Lieber's article on medical disorders of alcoholism (Oct. 19 issue)¹ is an articulate and comprehensive review of the many complications of alcoholism, including malnutrition, exposure to toxic metabolites, carcinogenesis, liver and pancreatic injury, gastritis, and cardiomyopathy. I think it is important to point out that the mortality from alcohol-related trauma is approximately the same as the death rate from all the other health problems of chronic alcoholism combined.^2,3 The author states that this drug exacts a toll of about 100,000 lives and $100 billion to $130 billion each year.^3,4 these figures include deaths and injuries from . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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