Updated cost effectiveness analysis of the Navy drug and alcohol rehabilitation program

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Authors
Erb, Katherine D. C.
Subjects
Alcohol abuse
Drug abuse
Rehabilitation
Rehabilitation cost
Treatment cost
Advisors
Terasawa, Katsuaki L.
Gates, William R.
Date of Issue
1993-12
Date
December 1993
Publisher
Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School
Language
en_US
Abstract
A previous cost benefit analysis of the Navy drug and alcohol rehabilitation program equated the value of benefits to the avoided replacement costs of the service members successfully rehabilitated. This thesis updates this study. In particular, this thesis considers the replacement cost model and identifies an improvement to the previous methodology. The previous model misspecifies average replacement costs and overestimates the program benefits. A new rehabilitation treatment model is developed within this thesis. The value of the rehabilitation benefit is based on the Navy's desired manning objective. This more accurately reflects the rehabilitation benefit as the Navy downsizes its force structure.
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Thesis
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Department
Department of Administrative Sciences
Organization
Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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Format
47 p.
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Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
Rights
This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.
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