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Type of Cost |
1985[1] |
1990[2] |
Amount in Millions |
Amount in Millions |
Percent Distribution |
Total |
$70,338 |
$98,623 |
100 |
|
|
|
|
Core Costs |
58,181 |
80,763 |
81.9 |
|
|
|
|
Direct Costs |
6,810 |
10,512 |
10.7 |
|
|
|
|
Specialty organizations |
2,281 |
3,469 |
3.5 |
Short-stay hospitals |
3,017 |
4,589 |
4.7 |
Office-based physicians |
141 |
240 |
0.2 |
Other professional services |
173 |
329 |
0.3 |
Nursing homes |
703 |
1,095 |
1.1 |
Support Costs |
495 |
790 |
0.8 |
|
|
|
|
Indirect Costs |
51,371 |
70,251 |
71.2 |
|
|
|
|
Morbidity |
27,388 |
36,627 |
37.1 |
Noninstitutionalized population |
27,208 |
36,404 |
36.9 |
Institutionalized population |
180 |
223 |
0.2 |
|
|
|
|
Mortality[3] |
23,983 |
33,624 |
34.1 |
|
|
|
|
Other Related Costs |
10,546 |
15,771 |
16 |
|
|
|
|
Direct Costs |
7,380 |
10,436 |
10.6 |
|
|
|
|
Crime |
4,251 |
5,807 |
5.9 |
Motor vehicle crashes |
2,584 |
3,876 |
3.9 |
Fire destruction |
457 |
633 |
0.6 |
Social welfare administration |
88 |
120 |
0.1 |
|
|
|
|
Indirect Costs |
3,166 |
5,335 |
5.4 |
|
|
|
|
Victims of crime |
465 |
576 |
0.6 |
Incarceration |
2,701 |
4,759 |
4.8 |
|
|
|
|
Special Diseases |
|
|
|
Fetal alcohol syndrome |
1,611 |
2,089 |
2.1 |
Source: Rice, D.P. The economic costs of alcohol abuse and dependence 1990. ALCOHOL HEALTH & RESEARCH WORLD, 17(1), 10-11, 1993.
[1] Rice, D.P.; Kelman, S.; Miller, L.S.; Dunmeyer, S. THE ECONOMIC COSTS OF ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE AND MENTAL ILLNESS, 1985. Report for ADAMHA prepared by the Institute for Health and Aging, University of California, San Francisco, 1990. DHHS Pub. No.90-1694.
[2] 1990 costs are based on socioeconomic indexes applied to 1985 estimates.
[3] Discounted at 6 percent.