The Economic Costs of Alcohol and Drug Abuse in the United States - 1992
Table 5.2
Total Number of Deaths and Economic Costs for Premature Mortalities Attributed to Alcohol and Drug Abuse, 1992
| |
Deaths |
Economic Cost
(millions of dollars) |
Alcohol abuse |
107,360 |
$31,327 |
Drug abuse |
25,493 |
$14,575 |
| TOTAL |
132,853 |
$45,902 |
Note: Components may not sum to totals because of rounding. Economic cost is the present discounted value of expected lifetime market plus nonmarket productivity, discounted by 6 percent. Estimates are also presented later in this section for 3-percent and 4-percent discount rates.
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