Specialist drug and alcohol services for young people - a cost benefit analysis

Paul Johnson
Mark Johnson
Yulia Kossykh

Published on 1 February 2011

This report looks at the costs and benefits associated with young people's drug and alcohol treatment.

Education and skills
Training
Skills
Labour supply and workforce
Higher education

The Department for Education (DfE) appointed Frontier Economics to undertake a cost benefit analysis of drug policy relating to young people. This project is an element of a broader piece of work being carried out by the Centre for Analysis of Youth Transitions.

A repository of CAYT impact studies is hosted by Mentor-Adepis (Alcohol and Drug Education and Prevention Information Service).

Authors

Paul Johnson

Director

Paul has been the Director of the IFS since 2011. He is also currently visiting professor in the Department of Economics at University College London.