Can We Model the Impact of Increased Drug Treatment Expenditure on the U.K. Drug Market?

Christine Godfrey, Steve Parrott, Gail Eaton, Anthony Culyer and Cynthia McDougall

A chapter in Substance Use: Individual Behaviour, Social Interactions, Markets and Politics, 2005, pp 257-275 from Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Abstract: This chapter introduces a simulation model to estimate the social costs of problem drug misusers in England and Wales, and how policies to increase the number of drug users in treatment may impact on both social costs and government expenditure. Consequences are divided into five domains – health, crime, social care, work, and driving. Social costs are estimated to be between £12 and £12.3 billion, and the total cost of government expenditure is around £3.5 billion. Increases in the numbers in treatment, are estimated to reduce social costs across a 5-year period by between £3.0 and £4.4 billion.

Date: 2005
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