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
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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
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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.
Information furnished by National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
