By Steven Reinberg
HealthDay Reporter

MONDAY, Oct. 17 (HealthDay News) -- The public health price tag on excessive drinking in the United States comes to almost $2 a drink, a new government report shows.

"Excess alcohol consumption is a serious public health problem in this country," CDC Director Dr. Thomas R. Frieden said during a noon press conference Monday. "It's also very costly."

The economic toll of problem drinking affects everybody through lost productivity, increased health care costs and the costs of alcohol-related crime, Frieden said. In 2006, those costs totaled $223.5 billion or about $1.90 a drink, the report found.

"Fully two-thirds of these costs were related to binge drinking," Frieden said.

A Scottsboro father is in jail tonight facing domestic violence charges.

He's accused of causing injuries related to the shaken baby syndrome to his 7-week-old son.

Police say it happened at his home Friday on Worthington Street.

Police arrested the child's father, Casey Brandon Rose.

He's being held in the Jackson County Jail on a $100,000 bond.

The baby is at Huntsville Hospital in neo-natal ICU.

(CNN) - If you're not in the habit of wiping down your cell phone, you may want to start.

A new study found that one in six cell phones is covered in fecal matter.

Researchers in London looked at hundreds of swab samples taken from phones.

They found that 16 percent were contaminated with the bacteria E. coli, which comes from feces.

Additionally, most of the cell phones had some kind of bacterial contamination on them, according to the study.

Researchers say it's likely because many people don't wash their hands after using the bathroom.

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