Skip Navigation

Link to the National Institutes of Health NIDA NEWS NIDA News RSS Feed
The Science of Drug Abuse and Addiction from the National Institute on Drug Abuse Keep Your Body Healthy
Go to the Home pageGo to the About Nida pageGo to the News pageGo to the Meetings & Events pageGo to the Funding pageGo to the Publications page
PhysiciansResearchersParents/TeachersStudents/Young AdultsEn Español Drugs of Abuse & Related Topics

The Economic Costs of Alcohol and Drug Abuse in the United States - 1992

Table 5.1

Lost Potential Productivity Due to Alcohol and Drug Abuse, 1992 (millions of dollars)

Lost Earnings due to: Total Alcohol Drug

Premature death (mortality)

 $45,902 $31,327 $14,575

Alcohol and drug abuse illness (morbidity)

 $80,911 $66,706 $14,205

Institutionalized/hospital populations

 $2,990 $1,513 $1,477

Fetal alcohol syndrome victims

 $990 $990 NA

Victims of crime

 $3,071 $1,012 $2,059

Incarceration

 $23,356 $5,449 $17,907

Crime careers

 $19,198 - $19,198
Total $176,418 $106,997 $69,421

Note: Components may not sum to totals because of rounding. Mortality estimates use the present discounted value of expected lifetime productivity, discounted by 6 percent.
[NIDA Home Page][Economic Costs Index][Use the Back Button on Your Browser to Return to the Previous Page]

NIDA Home | Site Map | Search | FAQs | Accessibility | Privacy | FOIA (NIH) | Employment | Print Version

National Institutes of Health logo_Department of Health and Human Services Logo The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) , a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Questions? See our Contact Information. Last updated on Friday, May 19, 2006. The U.S. government's official web portal