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National Drug Control Strategy
Update 2003
February 2003
Table 23.Estimated Indirect1
Costs to Society of Drug Abuse,1992 �2000 (2000 $,Millions)
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Year
|
Premature
death
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Drug
abuse related illness
|
Institution-
alization/ hospital- ization
|
Productivity
loss of victims of crime
|
Incarceration
|
Crime
careers
|
Total
|
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1992 |
17,679
|
17,231
|
1,792
|
2,498
|
21,721
|
23,287
|
84,208
|
|
1993 |
24,857
|
16,220
|
1,769
|
2,932
|
22,819
|
23,277
|
91,874
|
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1994 |
25,167
|
18,204
|
1,933
|
2,934
|
24,236
|
22,251
|
94,996
|
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1995 |
25,633
|
19,817
|
2,091
|
2,656
|
25,678
|
22,536
|
98,411
|
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1996 |
21,375
|
21,997
|
1,664
|
2,530
|
26,949
|
25,782
|
100,296
|
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1997 |
17,791
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21,128
|
1,763
|
2,432
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28,877
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28,227
|
100,218
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1998 |
17,351
|
24,175
|
1,866
|
2,262
|
31,477
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25,725
|
102,855
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19992 |
17,823
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24,832
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1,890
|
2,164
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33,515
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26,424
|
106,648
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20002 |
18,256
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25,435
|
1,915
|
2,217
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35,601
|
27,066
|
110,491
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1�Indirect
costs � are productivity losses attributable to drug abuse.
2Figures for
1999 and 2000 are projections based on observed trends for 1992–1998.
Source:
Office of National Drug Control Policy, The Economic Costs
of Drug Abuse in the United States,1992–1998 (September
2001).
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Last Updated: May 7, 2003
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