The costs of tobacco, alcohol and illicit drug abuse to Australian Society in 2004/05
Acknowledgments
Table of contents
- List of tables
- List of abbreviations
- Executive Summary
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
2. General methodological issues in the estimation of the social costs of drug abuse- 3. Availability of new or revised methodologies and data
- 4. The epidemiological background to economic studies
- 5. Estimation of drug-attributable crime costs
- 6. Some disaggregated costs 48
- 7. Aggregate results
- 8. Comparability with previous social cost estimates
- 9. Future research
- Bibliography
- Appendix A, Demographic estimates
- Appendix B, Drugs and crime: calculating attributable fractions from the DUMA and DUCO projects
- Appendix C, Estimation of drug-attributable cases
- Footnotes to appendices
The people who generously assisted us with their time, knowledge, and expertise, and to whom we are most grateful, include, in alphabetical order:
| Name | Organisation |
|---|---|
| Chrys Athanasos | Drug Strategy Branch, Department of Health and Ageing |
| David Batts | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
| Mark Cooper-Stanbury | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
| Emily Davis | Drug Strategy Branch, Department of Health and Ageing |
| John Goss | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
| Andrea Mant | University of New South Wales |
| Patricia Mayhew | Crime and Justice Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington |
| Bridgette McKelvey | Operations and Risk Planning Unit, Queensland Fire and Rescue Service |
| Kenneth Pidd | National Centre for Education and Training on Addiction, Flinders University |
| Karen Price | Drug Strategy Branch, Department of Health and Ageing |
| Selena Stanley | Operations and Risk Planning Unit, Queensland Fire and Rescue Service |
Top of Page
We are particularly grateful to George Phillips, of the Drug Strategy Branch of the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing for his strong assistance and support during this project.
Valuable contributions to the methodological analyses and data development have been made by:
- Emeritus Professor John Pollard of Macquarie University, whose demographic estimates are presented as Appendix A
- Dr Toni Makkai of the Australian Institute of Criminology and Dr Jeromey Temple of the Australian National University, whose estimates of drug-attributable fractions for crime are presented as Appendix B
- Associate Professor James Codde of the University of Western Australia, whose estimates of drug-attributable cases are presented as Appendix C.
We are greatly indebted to all who assisted us. If errors and omissions remain, despite all the information and assistance provided, they are entirely our responsibility.
Top of Page
