[cost3.htm, dated 12/97]
|
Types of Costs |
Costs ($ millions) |
|
Core costs |
|
|
Direct
|
|
|
Treatment[a] |
$13,457 |
|
Health support services |
1,549 |
|
Indirect |
|
|
Mortality[b] |
18,151 |
|
Reduced productivity |
65,582 |
|
Lost employment |
5,323 |
|
Other related costs |
|
|
Direct |
|
|
Motor vehicle crashes |
2,697 |
|
Crime |
2,631 |
|
Social welfare administration |
49 |
|
Other |
3,673 |
|
Indirect |
|
|
Victims of crime |
194 |
|
Incarceration |
2,979 |
|
Motor vehicle crashes |
590 |
|
|
|
Total |
$116,875 |
SOURCE: SIXTH SPECIAL REPORT TO CONGRESS ON ALCOHOL AND HEALTH FROM THE SECRETARY OF HUMAN SERVICES (January 1987), DHHS Publication No. ADM 87-1519. Adapted from Harwood, H.; Napolitano, D.M.; Christensen, P.L.; and Collins, J.J. ECONOMIC COSTS TO SOCIETY OF ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE AND MENTAL ILLNESS, 1980. Report to Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration by Research Triangle Park, NC: Research Triangle Institute, 1984.
[a] For alcohol abuse and alcoholism, liver cirrhosis, other illnesses, motor vehicle crashes, and other injuries.
[b] At 6 percent discount rate.