The social cost of drugs in France

In order to update the data on social cost of legal substances (alcohol and tobacco) and illegal substances as a whole, the French National Health Directorate has subsidised a study on this subject. 

Further to a call for tenders led by the French Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (OFDT), this study was entrusted, at the end of 2013, to Pierre Kopp, professor at Paris 1 University and researcher at the Economics Centre at the Sorbonne and the Paris School of Economics. 

The objective of this study is to measure the monetary cost of the consequences of drug use and trafficking. 

It complies with the international standards of studies on social cost (Single et al., 1995) while the calculation parameters comply with the public calculation methodology recommended by the public authorities in France (Quinet, 2013).