The societal cost of heroin use disorder in the United States.

Heroin use in the United States has reached epidemic proportions. The objective of this paper is to estimate the annual societal cost of heroin use disorder in the United States in 2015 US dollars.An analytic model was created that included incarceration and crime; treatment for heroin use disorder;...

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Main Authors: Ruixuan Jiang, Inyoung Lee, Todd A Lee, A Simon Pickard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5448739?pdf=render