Canadian Substance Use Costs and Harms

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The Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA) and the Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research (CISUR)

Date de publication

2023

Géographie

Canada

Texte disponible en version intégrale

Oui

Open Access / OK to Reproduce

Non

Évalué par des pairs

No

L’objectif

The two main objectives are: (1) Provide comparable, valid and up-to-date data on costs and harms of substance use in Canada, and (2) to allow people to actively explore and analyze the data through the interactive data visualization tool.

Constatations/points à retenir

The cost of substance use-related harms across Canada is $49.1 billion, split between lost productivity costs ($22.4 billion), healthcare costs ($13.4 billion), criminal justice costs ($10.0 billion), and other direct costs ($3.3 billion). 

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Advocacy
Evidence base
Illegal drugs