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    Quantifying the social costs of pharmaceutical opioid misuse and illicit opioid use to Australia in 2015/16

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    Authors
    Makate, Marshall
    Whetton, Steve
    Tait, Robert
    Chrzanowska,, Agata
    Donnelly, Neil
    McEntee, Alice
    Muhktar, Aqif
    Zahra, Emma
    Campbell, Gabrielle
    Degenhardt, Louisa
    Dey, Tania
    Halim, Suraya Abdul
    Hall, Wayne
    Norman, Richard
    Peacok, Amy
    Roche, Ann
    Allsop, Steve
    Date
    2020
    Type
    Report
    
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    Quantifying the social costs of pharmaceutical opioid misuse and illicit opioid use to Australia in 2015/16
    Faculty
    Faculty of Health Sciences
    School
    School of Public Health
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/81928
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    In recent decades the range and patterns of opioids used for extra-medical purposes have changed. The use of pharmaceutical opioids exceeds the use of heroin. In 2017, 63 percent of opioid deaths were attributed exclusively to pharmaceutical opioids, 28 percent to illicit opioids and 8 percent to both illicit and pharmaceutical opioids (aged 15-64 years).

    The objective of this report was to estimate the social costs arising from extra-medical opioid use in Australia for the financial year 2015/16. Due to data limitations in most cases we only estimated the costs occurring in this 12 month period. For example, on-going care of chronic conditions was not included. The exceptions to this were for certain harms which occurred in 2015/16 but which had longer-term ramifications, for example premature deaths, where discounted streams of future costs (lost economic activity and lost contributions to household chores) and partially offsetting savings (future health expenditure ’avoided’ by premature deaths) were estimated. The authors also included the long-term costs of road traffic accidents, as were the expected future costs of opioid attributable imprisonment for those sentenced in 2015/16.

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