The phrase "abuse amount" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing the quantity or extent of abuse, such as in legal, social, or health-related discussions.
Example: "The report highlighted the alarming abuse amount reported by the victims over the past year."
Alternatives: "extent of abuse" or "level of abuse".
However, users of the website believe that Pao's new rules designed to prevent online abuse amount to "censorship" and many called for her resignation.
The Surgeon General's office has estimated that the yearly losses in productivity, health care costs and criminal justice expenses for alcohol misuse and illicit drug abuse amount to US$442 billion.
The taking of 153 of these children hostage and the accompanying physical abuse amount to war crimes under international law, contributing to the astonishing assortment of offenses against humanity that the Islamic State (also known as ISIS/ISIL) is believed to have committed — including summary mass executions and the selling of sex slaves.
HRW said some of the abuse amounted to forced labour or trafficking.
The women added that the failure "to introduce measures to prevent further abuse amounts to institutional sexism".
One survivor told the inquiry the C of E's response to his disclosure of abuse amounted to "enduringly cruel and sadistic treatment".
Whether or not Mr. Qaissi was the man in the well-known photograph, no one to my knowledge disputes the fact that he was actually a victim of American abuse amounting to torture at Abu Ghraib prison.
Portenoy, who received funding from Purdue, decried the reticence among clinicians to administer such narcotics for chronic pain, claiming that it was indicative of "opiophobia," and suggesting that concerns about addiction and abuse amounted to a "medical myth".
A study published in the journal Pain Medicine in 2011 estimated that health-care costs related to prescription opioid abuse amounted to twenty-five billion dolland, and criminal-justice-system costs to $5.1 billion.
Last night the Red Cross was joined by the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture, which argued that if the allegations were true they indicated systematic abuse, amounting to torture.
Just the health and economic cost alone from drug and alcohol abuse amounts to over $350 billion a year -- just those costs, $350 billion a year; an even bigger cost in human suffering, the lives lost, the lost dreams that result from the pain and destruction that abuse brings to not only the abuser, but to the family and everyone surrounding, everyone who loves that person.
