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Recreational Drug Consumption An Economic Perspective
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The use of psychoactive drugs—licit and illicit—is associated with a range of
adverse effects on both physical and mental health. Such health consequences
range from short-term effects such as insomnia and abdominal pain to longterm
effects such as seizures, strokes, paranoia, liver cirrhosis and heart disease
(IHME 2013). Other than health effects, drug use is also associated with an
array of adverse consequences on the user, his family and the community at
large. Such consequences include injuries or loss of life, family disruptions, poor
job performance, road accidents, violence, crime and suicide. To put this into
perspective, tobacco kills nearly 6 million people each year, including more than
600,000 non-smokers who die from exposure to tobacco smoke and up to half of
the world’s one billion smokers will eventually die of a tobacco-related disease.
Approximately 2.3 million people worldwide died in 2004, from the use of alcohol.
Between 153 and 300 million individuals aged 15–64 had used illicit drugs in 2010,
out of which 15.5–38.6 million were problem drug users (UNODC 2012; WHO
2011a,b). Drug abuse imposes a high economic cost on society1 and has been a
major concern to policymakers worldwide. A range of strategies, campaigns and
rehabilitation programs have been undertaken in a number of countries, to treat and
prevent drug-related harms. Such harms (to the user and to society) range from
drug-related morbidity and mortality, motor vehicle fatalities, to violence, crime,
and suicide.
H.E. Frech and Peter Zweifel - Personal Name
1st Edition
978-3-319-02405-9
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Recreational Drug Consumption An Economic Perspective
Management
English
Springer International
2013
Switzerland
1-178
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