Save the Date!
Please join us at the Alcohol Policy Panel of San Diego County’s Quarterly General Assembly Breakfast Meeting
Friday, June 19, 2015 from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.
Costs of Alcohol and Drug Misuse and Abuse in San Diego County KEYNOTE SPEAKER
How does San Diego compare to other California counties in terms of
the societal harm and costs caused by substance abuse?
Dr. Ted Miller, Senior Research Scientist
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation (PIRE), Calverton, Maryland
Serious public health, safety, social and economic problems result from
substance abuse in San Diego County.
Conservative estimates show that alcohol and drug misuse and abuse cost San
Diego County $4.2 billion dollars in 2010. That amounts to more than $4,500
per county resident, according to research conducted by the Pacific Institute
for Research and Evaluation (PIRE), an independent, nonprofit organization
recognized internationally for its scientific analysis of substance abuse costs
and their impacts.
These costs are calculated for a variety of societal problems. These include:
alcohol and drug-related deaths and injuries caused by impaired drivers;
violent and non-violent crimes committed by individuals who are under the
influence of both legal and illegal substances; lost wages and productivity; and
reduced quality of life.
Please join us as PIRE’s Senior Research Scientist, Dr. Ted Miller shares this
rare data and explains how the price tag for substance abuse in San Diego
County compares to other counties across the state.
Dr. Miller will also examine the cost savings derived from the implementation
of environmental and workplace interventions in California that have been
designed to reduce and prevent alcohol and drug-related problems.
Dr. Miller is an internationally recognized safety economist with over 250 publications. He is a
leading expert on incidence, costs and consequences of substance abuse, injury, and violence.
His cost estimates have been used by the U.S. Department of Transportation, the U.S.
Consumer Product Safety Commission, the Justice Department, and several foreign
governments. He founded the Children's Safety Network Economics and Insurance Resource
Center, which has worked since 1992 to forge child safety partnerships and inform child safety
advocacy.
Dr. Miller has applied his cost estimates to compute the return on investment for more than
160 prevention, treatment and harm reduction measures. Recently, he tailored Californiaspecific estimates for dozens of substance abuse prevention programs.
In another recent study, he estimated the costs of alcohol and drug misuse in California by
county. That work follows up on his studies of costs of youth problem behaviors including
underage drinking, drug abuse, high-risk sexual behavior, violence and suicidal acts.
Dr. Miller is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine. He was
the 1999 recipient of the Excellence in Science Award from the American Public Health
Association's Injury Control and Emergency Health Services Section and received the Vision
Award from the State and Territorial Injury Prevention Directors Association in 2005.
MEETING LOCATION:
Sincerely,
Beth Sise, JD, RN, MSN, CPNP
Chair, Alcohol Policy Panel of San Diego County
Director, Trauma Research and Injury Prevention, Scripps Mercy Hospital
DATE & TIME
COST
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San Marcos Community Center (Main Hall)
3 Civic Center Dr, San Marcos, CA 92069
Friday, June 19, 2015, 9 – 11 a.m.
$10 (Continental breakfast included)
Please register and pay by Friday, June 12th at:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/RHDVKPC
The Alcohol Policy Panel of San Diego County is a volunteer coalition of diverse community leaders who are concerned about the impact alcohol abuse is having on our communities. Members provide leadership to the
County’s Binge and Underage Drinking Initiative, which develops strategic, community-based and environmental prevention campaigns to reduce underage and high risk drinking.
This meeting is made possible with funding from the County of San Diego, Health and Human Services.