Categories: Drug Use & Consequences, Drug Policy & Trends, Modeling & Forecasting

Sponsor: National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

PI: Rosalie Pacula

Start Date: May 2006

End Date: April 2010

The specific aims of this 4-year study are to estimate the total economic cost of drug abuse in the United States using a more traditional economics approach and adopting a chronic disease perspective. A microsimulation modeling technique is used to evaluate costs from an epidemiological standpoint, empirically accounting for the uncertainty and heterogeneity of costs and consequences that occur among drug users.