TY  - BOOK
ED  - World Health Organization(Geneva)
TI  - International guidelines for estimating the costs of substance abuse
SN  - 92-4-154582-8
AV  - HV 4998 .S58 2003 
CY  - Geneva
PB  - World Health Organization
KW  - Substance-Related Disorders|Costs and Cost Analysis|Mortality
N1  - 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
ER  -