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Is AOD Abuse a Serious Crime Problem?

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Ratios in Rice, D. and Kelman, S. et al., The Economic Costs of Alcohol and Drug Abuse and Mental Illness: 1985 (1990), applied to Robert Wood Johnson's (RWJ) 1990 estimates presented in Substance Abuse, 1993. The total of $11.3 billion is less than RWJ's estimates which included noncriminal accidents.