Substance Abuse Prevention Dollars and Cents: A Cost-Benefit Analysis

Resource To Help Decisionmakers Choose Cost-Effective Substance Abuse Prevention Programs

Communities can use cost-benefit analysis to help guide their decisions and develop better comprehensive prevention strategies based on their unique needs and characteristics.

Substance Abuse Prevention Dollars and Cents: A Cost-Benefit Analysis is a report designed to help policymakers and other stakeholders use the results of cost-benefit analysis as an information tool for decisionmaking and for selecting the substance abuse prevention programs that address their needs, given available resources.

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP)
Substance Abuse Prevention Dollars and Cents: A Cost-Benefit Analysis

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Center for Substance Abuse Prevention www.samhsa.gov

open here to see pdf of 59 pages:
http://download.ncadi.samhsa.gov/prevline/pdfs/SMA07-4298.pdf