The costs of tobacco, alcohol and illicit drug abuse to Australian Society in 2004/05
List of abbreviations
- 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
ABOD: Australian Burden of Disease study
ABS: Australian Bureau of Statistics
AF: Attributable fraction (also known as aetiologic fraction)
AIC: Australian Institute of Criminology
AIDS Acquired immune deficiency syndrome
AIHW: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
ATO: Australian Taxation Office BCA Benefit-cost analysis
BTE: Bureau of Transport Economics
COPD: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
DRG: Diagnosis-related groups
DUCO: Drug Use Careers of Offenders
DUMA: Drug Use Monitoring in Australia
EtOH: Ethyl alcohol GDP Gross domestic product
GST: Goods and services tax HIV Human immunodeficiency virus
ICD: International Classification of Diseases
IGA: Inter-Governmental Agreement on the Reform of Commonwealth-State Financial Arrangements
IHD: Ischaemic heart disease
MSO: Most serious offence
NCA: National Crime Authority
N.a.: Not available
N.e.i.: Not elsewhere included
NHMRC: National Health and Medical Research Council
PBS: Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme
PYLL: Potential years of life lost
QFRS: Queensland Fire and Rescue Service
RR: Relative risk RRP Revenue replacement payment
SIDS: Sudden infant death syndrome
WHO: World Health Organization
