[cost7.txt, dated 6/99]

Updated cost estimates for 1992 and inflation- and population-
adjusted costs of alcohol and drug abuse for 1995 [in millions of
current-year dollars].

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                                    Alcohol               Drugs
      Category                   --------------       -------------
                                 1992      1995       1992      1995
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Specialty alcohol & drug
 services                       5,573     6,660      4,400     5,258

Medical consequences           13,247    15,830      5,531     6,623

Lost earnings--premature
 death                         31,327    34,921     14,575    16,247

Lost earnings--illness         69,209    77,150     15,682    17,481

Lost earnings--crime/victims    6,461     7,231     39,164    43,829

Crashes, fires, criminal
 justice, etc.                 22,204    24,752     18,307    20,407

                              -------   -------     ------   -------
Total                         148,021   166,543     97,659   109,832

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Source: National Institute on Drug Abuse and the National Institute
        on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. THE ECONOMIC COSTS OF ALCOHOL
        AND DRUG ABUSE IN THE UNITED STATES, 1992.  Analysis by the
        Lewin Group, Harwood, H.; Fountain, D.; and Livermore, G.
        Bethesda, MD: DHHS, NIH, NIH Publication No. 98-4327
        (September 1998)

Note: Components may not sum to totals because of rounding.