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Show Hangovers in United States Cost One Billion Annually 1 CHICAGO. Hangovers cost the I nation one billion dollars annually j Each habitual alcoholic costs his j employer $550 every year. Therefore: Industrial leaders will confer to find out ways and means of doing something about him. The conference, first of its kind in the nation, is sponsored by the Chicago committee on alcoholism. Dr. Anton J. Carlson, university of Chicago medical researcher, is chairman. Dr. Carlson, who produced the economic cost figures on alcoholism, said that "of the thousands of industrial in-dustrial firms in the country, there are possibly no more than 10 on record who have conducted extensive exten-sive research on the subject of alcoholism alco-holism in industry." James H. Oughton Jr., director of the Keeley institute, Dwight, 111., added "Alcoholics are sick people. They suffer from a disease just as surely as does the diabetic, a person with cancer or tuberculosis. "They must not be confused with hopeless drunks and bums. This most certainly does not describe tne alcoholic. Not all those with an alcohol problem are hopeless. Many of them have high intelligence, fine, delicate makeups, and are among our community and social leaders " |