Editing Substance abuse (section)

====United Kingdom====
The UK [[Home Office]] estimated that the social and economic cost of drug abuse<ref name="Drug Abuse">{{Cite web| title = NHS and Drug Abuse | url = http://www.nhs.uk/LiveWell/Drugs/Pages/Drugshome.aspx | publisher = [[National Health Service (NHS)]] | date = March 22, 2010 | access-date = March 22, 2010 }}</ref> to the UK economy in terms of crime, absenteeism and sickness is in excess of £20 billion a year.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://drugs.homeoffice.gov.uk/drug-strategy/drugs-in-workplace/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070609094530/http://drugs.homeoffice.gov.uk/drug-strategy/drugs-in-workplace/|archive-date=2007-06-09|title=Home Office — Tackling Drugs Changing Lives – Drugs in the workplace|date=2007-06-09|access-date=2016-09-19}}</ref>
However, the UK Home Office does not estimate what portion of those crimes are [[unintended consequences]] of drug prohibition (crimes to sustain expensive drug consumption, risky production and dangerous distribution), nor what is the cost of enforcement. Those aspects are necessary for a full analysis of the economics of prohibition.<ref>{{Cite web| last  = Thornton| first = Mark| title = The Economics of Prohibition| date = 31 July 2006| url= https://mises.org/story/2269}}</ref>