Substance use continues to be a major public health problem, and the ramifications of this are manifold. For instance, at present, on a yearly basis, the total economic cost of substance misuse is literally hundreds of billions of dollars. These costs are related to a number of factors, including, but not limited to, treatment and prevention, reduced job productivity and/or absenteeism, interdiction by the criminal justice, and incarceration.
There are many more psychosocial consequences of substance misuse, and these have been welldocumented over the past four to five decades; in contrast,...
Substance use continues to be a major public health problem, and the ramifications of this are manifold. For instance, at present, on a yearly basis, ...
