International guidelines for estimating the costs of substance abuse
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TextPublication details: Geneva World Health OrganizationEdition: 2nd edDescription: vi, 81pISBN: - 92-4-154582-8
- HV 4998 .S58 2003
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Presents a general framework for the development of cost estimates. studies of the economic costs of substance abuse are described as a type of cost-of-illness study in which the impact of substance abuse on the material welfare of a society is estimated by examining the social costs of treatment, prevention, research, law enforcement and lost productivity plus some measure of the quality of life years lost, relative to a counterfactual scenario in which there is no substance abuse.
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