Social Cost of Meth Use

Now this is fascinating (at least to me).  The RAND Corporation has calculated the social cost of methamphetamine use in the United States for 2005 at $23.4 billion.  You can read all about it here.  The study’s authors are quick to admit that a lot of impacts are difficult (impossible?) to quantify, so the figure certainly has to be taken with some caution, but it is still interesting to see such a large monetary value assigned to a social problem.