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Economic Costs of Excessive Alcohol Consumption in the U.S., 2006
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The estimated economic cost of excessive drinking was $223.5 billion in 2006 (72.2% from lost productivity, 11.0% from healthcare costs, 9.4% from criminal justice costs, and 7.5% from other effects) or approximately $1.90 per alcoholic drink. Binge drinking resulted in costs of $170.7 billion (76.4% of the total); underage drinking $24.6 billion; and drinking during pregnancy $5.2 billion. The cost of alcohol-attributable crime was $73.3 billion. The cost to government was $94.2 billion (42.1% of the total cost).
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“A meta-analysis assessing alcohol involvement among people treated in emergency departments 8 provided AAFs for nonfatal violent injuries (0.267) and unintentional injuries other than those related to traffıc crashes (0.058).”
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- Partly supportedcites [8] 8. Cherpitel CJ, Ye Y, Bond J. Attributable risk of injury associated with alcohol use: cross national data from the emergency room collaborative alcohol analysis project. Am J Public Health 2005;95:266 -72, Table 3. sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Results (Table 3; page unavailable) give 0.058 as the pooled attributable fraction for all-cause injuries, not specifically for nonfatal unintentional injuries excluding traffic crashes. The same table supports the citing sentence’s 0.267 figure for violence-related injuries. The paper uses meta-analytic techniques, but it does not report the claimed injury-specific fraction. (LLM, conf=0.89)
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“A meta-analysis assessing alcohol involvement among people treated in emergency departments 8 provided AAFs for nonfatal violent injuries (0.267) and unintentional injuries other than those related to traffıc crashes (0.058).”
§ Economic Costs of Excessive Alcohol Consumption in the U.S., 2006 > Alcohol-Attributable Fractions
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- Supportedcites [8] 8. Cherpitel CJ, Ye Y, Bond J. Attributable risk of injury associated with alcohol use: cross national data from the emergency room collaborative alcohol analysis project. Am J Public Health 2005;95:266 -72, Table 3. source
The Results (Table 3; page not provided) report a pooled alcohol-attributable fraction of 0.267 for violence-related injuries, specifically for the ≥5-drinks monthly drinking pattern. The paper describes using meta-analytic techniques to estimate attributable risks from emergency-room studies. (LLM, conf=0.93)
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“The estimated total economic cost of excessive drinking was $223.5 billion in 2006.”
§ Economic Costs of Excessive Alcohol Consumption in the U.S., 2006 > Results
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“On a per capita basis, this cost was approximately $746 for each man, woman, and child in the U.S. in 2006.17”
§ Economic Costs of Excessive Alcohol Consumption in the U.S., 2006 > Results
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- Not matchedcites [17] 17. National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. National epide- miologic survey on alcohol and related conditions.
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“while almost as much $92.9 billion (41.5%) was borne by excessive drinkers and their family members (Table 2).”
§ Economic Costs of Excessive Alcohol Consumption in the U.S., 2006 > Who Bears the Cost
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“By cost category, the excessive drinker and their household bore 10.3% of the $24.6 billion in total healthcare expenditures related to excessive alcohol consumption.”
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“Lost productivity accounted for 61.4% of the costs.”
§ Economic Costs of Excessive Alcohol Consumption in the U.S., 2006 > Cost Allocations by Drinking Pattern, Risk Group, and Outcome
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“Of the $24.6 billion in health expenditures attributable to alcohol, 43.4% was from specialty treatment for alcohol abuse and dependence and another 20.8% from hospitalizations for other medical conditions stemming from excessive drinking (Table 1).”
§ Economic Costs of Excessive Alcohol Consumption in the U.S., 2006 > Cost Categories
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“Nonetheless, comparing the 2006 estimate of $223.5 billion to those from 1992 and 1998 3,4 shows an annualized increase of 3.0%.”
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- Not matchedcites [3] 3. Harwood H, Fountain D, Livermore G. The economic costs of alcohol and drug abuse in the U.S., 1992. Report prepared for the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, NIH, DHHS. Rockville MD: NIH, 1998. NIH Publi- cation No. 98-4327.
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- Not matchedcites [4] 4. Harwood H. Updating estimates of the economic costs of alcohol abuse in the U.S.: estimates, update methods and data. Report prepared by the Lewin Group for the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcohol- ism, 2000.
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“Of the total cost, $161.3 billion (72.2%) came from lost productivity; $24.6 billion (11.0%) came from increased healthcare costs; $21.0 billion (9.4%) came from criminal justice costs; and $16.7 billion (7.5%) came from other effects (Table 1).”
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“AAFs Self-reported consumption (used to define some AAFs) is under-reported in surveys 26,27 and former drinkers are not included in survey estimates of excessive drinking.”
§ Economic Costs of Excessive Alcohol Consumption in the U.S., 2006 > Discussion
What the sources say
- Partly supportedcites [26] 26. Chavez PR, Nelson DE, Naimi TS, Brewer RD. Impact of a new gender- specifıc defınition for binge drinking on prevalence estimates for women. Am J Prev Med 2011;40(4):468 -71. sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Discussion (page unavailable) says self-reported BRFSS alcohol measures are subject to underestimation. The Methods (page unavailable) say only people reporting alcohol use in the past 30 days were asked about binge drinking, so former drinkers were excluded from that estimate. The paper does not address AAFs or establish that former drinkers are excluded from survey estimates of excessive drinking generally. (LLM, conf=0.84)
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [27] 27. Miller TR, Levy DT, Spicer RS, Taylor DM. Societal costs of underage drinking. J Stud Alcohol 2006;67:519 -28. source
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“depending on age group, 0.4 -0.9 days lost to absenteeism per year for female binge drinkers and 0.5-1.2days for male binge drinkers.”
§ Economic Costs of Excessive Alcohol Consumption in the U.S., 2006 > Cost Categories
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“The two largest productivity losses were from impaired productivity at work (45.9%) and lost productivity (40.3%) resulting from the 83,180 alcoholattributable deaths (46,825 from acute conditions and 36,355 from chronic conditions) that occurred in 2006 (Table 1).”
§ Economic Costs of Excessive Alcohol Consumption in the U.S., 2006 > Cost Categories
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“In contrast, slightly more than half (54.6%) of productivity losses were borne by the excessive drinker and their household; 35.1% by government; and the remainder by others in society.”
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- Rests on an assumption: Costs related to excessive alcohol consumption may be borne by many others than those who excessively drink and their families.
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“The two largest costs were criminal justice system costs (55.7%) and motor vehicle crashes (36.4%) (Table 1).”
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“Of the total $73.3 billion cost of alcohol-attributable crime, 43.8% came from crash-related costs from driving under the influence, 17.2% came from corrections costs, and 15.1% came from lost productivity associated with homicide (Table 1).”
§ Economic Costs of Excessive Alcohol Consumption in the U.S., 2006 > Costs of crime.
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“The two largest productivity losses were from impaired productivity at work (45.9%) and lost productivity (40.3%) resulting from the 83,180 alcoholattributable deaths (46,825 from acute conditions and 36,355 from chronic conditions) that occurred in 2006 (Table 1).”
§ Economic Costs of Excessive Alcohol Consumption in the U.S., 2006 > Cost Categories
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“In contrast, government entities bore most (60.9%) of these costs, which is larger than the proportion of total healthcare spending that is covered by government (46.1%).18”
§ Economic Costs of Excessive Alcohol Consumption in the U.S., 2006 > Who Bears the Cost
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [18] 18. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. 2005- 2007 National Survey on Drug Use and Health. Rockville MD: Offıce of Applied Studies. Lewin analysis of survey data. source
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- Rests on an assumption: Costs related to excessive alcohol consumption may be borne by many others than those who excessively drink and their families.
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“For men with alcohol dependence (a subset of excessive drinkers), there was a reduction in both labor force participation (2.5%) and earnings given labor force participation (5.0%).”
§ Economic Costs of Excessive Alcohol Consumption in the U.S., 2006 > Cost Categories
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“Without truncation, the average costs would have increased 13%, 28%, and 44%, respectively.”
§ Economic Costs of Excessive Alcohol Consumption in the U.S., 2006 > Crime
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“When assessed by cost category, the share of the total cost of excessive alcohol consumption that was allocated to binge drinking was lower for health system direct costs (57.1%); than for productivity losses (74.2%); and other costs (98.1%).”
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“The selection of the alcohol-attributable conditions included in ARDI, as well as the methods used in ARDI to obtain attribution factors for these conditions, was made by a panel of public health experts.”
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“To be as consistent as possible with prior estimates, the same general methods and cost centers as the NIAAA studies 3,4 were used.”
§ Economic Costs of Excessive Alcohol Consumption in the U.S., 2006 > General Approach
What the sources say
- Not matchedcites [3] 3. Harwood H, Fountain D, Livermore G. The economic costs of alcohol and drug abuse in the U.S., 1992. Report prepared for the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, NIH, DHHS. Rockville MD: NIH, 1998. NIH Publi- cation No. 98-4327.
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- Not matchedcites [4] 4. Harwood H. Updating estimates of the economic costs of alcohol abuse in the U.S.: estimates, update methods and data. Report prepared by the Lewin Group for the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcohol- ism, 2000.
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“The present study follows the approach in Guidelines for Cost of Illness Studies in the Public Health Service.7”
§ Economic Costs of Excessive Alcohol Consumption in the U.S., 2006 > General Approach
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- Not matchedcites [7] 7. Hodgson TA, Meiners MR. 1979. Guidelines for cost-of-illness studies in the public health service. Bethesda MD: Public Health Service Task Force on Cost-of-Illness Studies.
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“making it the third-leading preventable cause of death in this country.2”
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What the sources say
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [2] 2. Mokdad A, Marks J, Stroup D, Gerberding J. Actual causes of death in the U.S., 2000. JAMA 2004;291:1238 -45. source
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“Further, the surveys that were used to assess the impact of alcohol dependence on earnings included a relatively small number of women, which made it diffıcult to accurately assess the impact of alcohol dependence on earnings history.”
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“Second, mortality and morbidity direct costs and lost productivity cost estimates were based on the primary cause of death or illness only; thus, contributing causes of death or disease that were related to alcohol were not considered.”
§ Economic Costs of Excessive Alcohol Consumption in the U.S., 2006 > Discussion
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“Alcohol-attributable violence (i.e., intimate partner violence, sexual violence, and child sexual abuse) is likely to have been under-reported in the National Crime Victimization Survey.”
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- Rests on an assumption: Victims of alcohol-attributable violence incur higher healthcare costs and more intensive use of services than non-abused counterparts.
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“Alcohol-related training costs for physicians, nurses, clergy, and law enforcement personnel and transportation costs for treatment of alcohol-attributable conditions were not included in cost estimates.”
§ Economic Costs of Excessive Alcohol Consumption in the U.S., 2006 > Healthcare costs
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“For example, smoking currently costs the U.S. about $193 billion annually-$97 billion from lost productivity and about $96 billion in healthcare costs.21,22”
§ Economic Costs of Excessive Alcohol Consumption in the U.S., 2006 > Discussion
What the sources say
- Not matchedcites [21] 21. Volume beverage and ethanol consumption for States, census regions, and the U.S., 1970 -2007. www.niaaa.nih.gov/Resources/DatabaseR- esources/QuickFacts/AlcoholSales/consum02.htm.
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- Not matchedcites [22] 22. National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. NIH publica- tions. What is a standard drink? pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/ practitioner/pocketguide/pocket_guide2.htm.
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“Long-term care costs did not include the costs of care at home or in institutions other than nursing homes, or the cost of long-term care or sequelae from very expensive alcohol-attributable traumatic injuries (i.e., spinal cord injury and traumatic brain injury).31”
§ Economic Costs of Excessive Alcohol Consumption in the U.S., 2006 > Healthcare costs
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [31] 31. Kuendig H, Hasselberg M, Laflamme L, Daeppen JB, Gmel G. Acute alcohol consumption and injury: risk associations and attributable fractions for different injury mechanisms. J Stud Alcohol Drugs 2008;69(2):218 -26. source
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“The total direct and indirect cost of physical inactivity was estimated to be in excess of $150 billion in 2000.23”
§ Economic Costs of Excessive Alcohol Consumption in the U.S., 2006 > Discussion
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- Not matchedcites [23] 23. Smoking and tobacco use. Fast facts. Costs and expenditures. cdc.gov/ tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/fast_facts/index.htm#cost.
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“This 3% increase is far below what would be ex-pected based on population and wage growth and cost index trends and is testament to the conservative approach used in the current study to calculate the 2006 estimate.”
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“Fourth, the estimates for absenteeism were based on data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, which does not use a gender-specifıc defınition of binge drinking (i.e., it uses fıve or more drinks on a single occasion to defıne binge drinking for both genders).”
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“A study 25 of the costs of underage drinking included these costs and estimated that 67% of the total economic impact of underage drinking was due to intangible costs.”
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“Moreover, many subclinical cases are not recognized and their costs are not estimated.”
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“Should a similar relationship apply here, the costs of excessive alcohol consumption estimated in the present study would have been substantially higher.”
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“For drinking during pregnancy, FAS costs were based on a prevalence of 1 per 1000 which was lower than estimates used in many other studies.33”
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- Not matchedcites [33] 33. Finkelstein EA, Corso PS, Ted R, Miller TR. Incidence and economic burden of injuries in the U.S. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
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Most excessive drinkers are not alcohol dependent.
“Because most excessive drinkers are not alcohol dependent and the diagnoses of alcohol dependence/alcohol abuse generally involves a history of excessive drinking over an extended period of time, these diagnoses were considered an outcome of excessive drinking and not the primary basis for assessing economic costs.”
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Binge drinking typically results in legal intoxication, defined as a blood alcohol level of at least 0.08 g/dL.
“This pattern of rapid alcohol consumption typically results in legal intoxication (i.e., a blood alcohol level of Ն0.08 g/dL).”
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The definition of excessive alcohol consumption used in the study is consistent with CDC and NIAAA standards used to identify harmful patterns of alcohol consumption.
“This defınition is consistent with CDC and NIAAA standards used to identify harmful patterns of alcohol consumption.”
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Costs related to excessive alcohol consumption may be borne by many others than those who excessively drink and their families.
“Costs related to excessive alcohol consumption may be borne by many others than those who excessively drink and their families.”
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Alcohol-attributable conditions are generally under-recognized and under-reported in the healthcare system.
“Alcohol-attributable conditions are generally under-recognized and under-reported in the healthcare system.”
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Victims of alcohol-attributable violence incur higher healthcare costs and more intensive use of services than non-abused counterparts.
“Victims of such violence incur higher healthcare costs related to more-frequent visits to care providers, including visits for mental health services, and more intensive use of these services (e.g., longer length of stay when hospitalized) than their non-abused counterparts.”
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Early-onset drinking and heavy alcohol consumption at an early age are associated with increased negative outcomes and long-term costs.
“although early-onset drinking and heavy alcohol consumption at an early age have been associated with increased negative outcomes and long-term costs”
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“Of these domains, the relative contribution of criminal activity to the total economic consequences of SUDs is typically the largest driver of social costs.”
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“many of these domains are featured in existing studies of the economic burden of SUDs”
From Monetary conversion factors for economic evaluations of substance use disorders (2017) · cites this paper as Bouchery, Harwood, Sacks, Simon, & Brewer, 2011
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“The majority of CEAs, CBAs, and economic burden studies in this field estimate the economic consequences of SUDs from health care services, criminal activity, and labor market outcomes (e.g., (Bouchery et al., 2011; Ettner et al., 2006; McCollister & French, 2003; Zarkin et al., 2015)).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Bouchery, E. E., Harwood, H. J., Sacks, J. J., Simon, C. J., & Brewer, R. D.
- Affiliations
- Mathematica Policy Research (US)
- National Association of State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Directors (US)
- Lewin Group (United States) (US)
- National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (US)
- Corresponding author
- Sacks, Jeffrey J.
- ORCID
- Brewer, Robert D.
- Venue
- American Journal of Preventive Medicine
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2011-11
- Volume
- 41
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 516-524
- ISSN
- 0749-3797 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2150215474
- Cited by
- 1,041
- References
- 22
- Citations by year
- 2026: 12 · 2025: 18 · 2024: 25 · 2023: 31 · 2022: 42 · 2021: 72 · 2020: 53 · 2019: 78 · 2018: 70 · 2017: 75 · 2016: 101 · 2015: 154 · 2014: 103 · 2013: 172 · 2012: 29
- FWCI
- 73.45
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Update notices
- erratum (2013-02-01)
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- American Journal of Preventive Medicine (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Mathematica Policy Research Reports (submittedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Foundation
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pathology and Forensic Medicine › Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- Keywords
- excessive alcohol consumption, binge drinking, underage drinking, prenatal alcohol exposure, productivity loss, health care costs, property damage, alcohol-attributable fraction, government costs, alcohol-related injuries
- MeSH terms
- Alcohol Drinking, Alcoholic Intoxication, Costs and Cost Analysis, Crime, Humans, United States, Databases, Factual, Health Care Costs, Alcohol-Related Disorders
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