Programa para estimar los costos humanos, económicos y sociales de las drogas en las Américas

Organización de los Estados Americandos. Comisión Interamericana para el Control de Abuso de Drogas (CICAD).

Descripción del proyecto:

The purpose of the Cost Program is to develop a methodology that will provide a framework through which OAS member states can measure the economic impact that drug use has on their societies. Its primary goal is to do this in a way that is both simple and economically feasible. The strategy is to develop a series of inter-related projects that will allow the countries to produce estimates on cost impact in a variety of social sectors such as health, criminal justice, welfare, industry, and labor enabling them to examine the impact of drugs in scientifically valid terms and use that knowledge to formulate sound, research-based policy. Armed with specific cost data countries can then make rational decisions about where to target scarce government resources. More importantly, by understanding where money is being invested and the costs related to those investments, decision makers can then devise strategies to reduce those costs.

T Presently there are four pilot countries (Barbados, Costa Rica, Mexico and Uruguay) participating in the development of the CICAD methodology. he methodology is divided into a series of indicators stratified by level of difficulty. Each country must systematically gather and validate the data corresponding to each indicator in order to produce valid cost estimates. In addition there are two countries (Chile and El Salvador) who have committed themselves to following and testing the CICAD methodology that has been developed thus far.

The impetus for this project began with Recommendation 20 of CICAD’s Multilateral Evaluation Mechanism (MEM), Hemispheric Report 1999-2000, and also the Summit of the Americas in Quebec City in May of 2001, where CICAD received a mandate to “develop within the framework of CICAD, a mechanism to measure to human, social and economic costs of drug abuse.”

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