Xie X, Rehm J, Single E, Robson L, Paul J
Addiction Research Foundation, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Pharmacol Res. 1998 Mar;37(3):241-9. doi: 10.1006/phrs.1998.0293.
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.
酒精滥用会引发健康和社会问题，如疾病、死亡、伤害、疼痛、痛苦及犯罪。这些危害给社会带来了经济负担。由于酒精滥用，资源被消耗或被放弃。本文对1992年安大略省酒精滥用的经济成本进行了估算。它采用疾病成本法，特别是人力资本法来估算基于患病率的酒精滥用经济成本。这种方法与1994年药物滥用经济和社会成本国际研讨会制定的国际准则相一致。文中确定并估算了酒精滥用的直接和间接经济成本。从社会角度来看，1992年安大略省酒精滥用的总经济成本估计为2.2611亿美元。
