overall costs of drug abuse in America. Nearly $60 billion in costs related to drug crime were counted in 1992, without considering incarceration costs that are significant or the lost productivity that results from it (Swan, 2002). The following table shows NIDA’s calculation of the overall costs to U.S. society from drug abuse in 1998, broken down by specific category:
ESTIMATED COSTS OF DRUG ABUSE IN THE UNITED STATES