Labelled drug-related public expenditure in relation to gross domestic product (GDP) in Europe: a luxury good?

ABSTRACT: "Labelled drug-related public expenditure" is the direct expenditure explicitly labelled as related to illicit drugs by the general government of the state. As part of the reporting exercise corresponding to 2005, the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction's network of national focal points set up in the 27 European Union (EU) Member States, Norway, and the candidates countries to the EU, were requested to identify labelled drug-related public expenditure, at the country level. This was reported by 10 countries categorised according to the functions of government, amounting to a total of EUR 2.17 billion. Overall, the highest proportion of this total came within the government functions of Health (66%), and Public Order and Safety (POS) (20%). By country, the average share

SUBMITTER: Prieto L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2881082 | biostudies-literature | 2010 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature