Public expenditures on drug-related harms in Finland in 2006
M Jääskeläinen, S Flöter · Suchttherapie · 2009 · Heft 09
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Aims: There is an over 10-year tradition of calculating drug and alcohol costs in Finland. The Finnish calculation framework was developed by Ritva Hein and Jukka Salomaa (Salomaa 1995; 1996; Hein & Salomaa 1998; 1999) in the 1990s. The idea of calculating drug and alcohol-related costs was generated by the fact that in Finland there were, and still are, very few public expenditures which are labelled. The Finnish way to calculate drug-related costs is more a study of budgetary impacts of drug-related harm on government and local authorities as well as pension and insurance companies, rather than a traditional c…