全球智库信息集成服务系统

• Skip to page content

Objective Analysis. Effective Solutions.

Opioid dependence imposes a range of costs on individuals, families, communities and society, and understanding these costs is important to inform policy and decision making in this area, especially when budgets for services to address challenges such as substance misuse are under pressure. This report sets out the findings of a targeted review of the harms of opioid dependence, and an assessment of existing estimates of the costs of opioid dependence. A proposed framework for developing new, more comprehensive estimates of the costs of opioid dependence is outlined.

• Chapter One

  Introduction

• Chapter Two

  Harms associated with opioid dependence

• Chapter Three

  Description of included estimates of the cost of opioid dependence

• Chapter Four

  Existing estimates of the costs of opioid dependence

• Chapter Five

  A framework to estimate the costs of opioid dependence

• Appendix A

  Methodology for the REA and review of background literature

• Appendix B

  Treatments available for opioid dependence

• Appendix C

  Definitions of dependence

• Appendix D

  Description of included studies

• Appendix E

  Adjusted cost estimates