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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1998-7-23
pubmed:abstractText
The abuse of alcohol causes health and social problems, such as sickness, death, injury, pain, suffering and crime. These harms impose an economic burden on society. Resources are used or foregone as a consequence of alcohol abuse. This article provides an estimate of the economic cost of alcohol abuse in Ontario in 1992. It uses the cost-of-illness method, in particular, the human-capital approach to estimate the prevalence-based economic costs of alcohol abuse. This methodology is consistent with international guidelines formulated at the 1994 International Symposium on Economic and Social Costs of Substance Abuse. The direct and indirect economic costs of alcohol abuse are identified and estimated. The total economic cost of alcohol abuse, from a societal perspective, is estimated to be US$2261.10 million in Ontario in 1992.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
1043-6618
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
37
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
241-9
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1998
pubmed:articleTitle
The economic costs of alcohol abuse in Ontario.
pubmed:affiliation
Addiction Research Foundation, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article