Department of Defense
United States Army National Guard
Department of Homeland Security
Office of Counternarcotics Enforcement
Department of Justice
Bureau of Justice Assistance
Department of Justice
National Drug Intelligence Center
Executive Office of the President
Office of National Drug Control Policy
Criminal behavior has consequences that extend beyond the immediacy of the relationship between perpetrator and victim. In the same way that illicit behavior is often difficult to detect, so too are its true costs difficult to ascertain. SAI has developed innovative approaches to the monetization of criminal activity, and applied these techniques to the problem of illicit drug use.
Working closely with the Department of Justice, National Drug Intelligence Center, SAI developed a revised and internally consistent method for estimating the cost of illicit drug use to American society. The technique employs a strictly prevalence-based approach to estimation and monetizes the impact of illicit drug use in three areas: Crime, Health, and Productivity.
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