Sentence examples for abuse cost from inspiring English sources

Eric Appleby, chief executive of Alcohol Concern, said alcohol abuse cost the NHS £3.5 bn a year.

An April 2012 study by a RAND Corporation analyst and former C.M.S. administrator estimated that fraud and abuse cost Medicare and Medicaid as much as $98 billion in 2011.

They said that she believed that the failure by her "Idol" colleagues to rebut sufficiently insinuations and jokes about her unreliability and possible substance abuse cost her lucrative endorsements.

Addiction NI and FASA said alcohol abuse cost £900m a year.

The Centre for Social Justice - set up by Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith - said drink and drug abuse cost the UK £36bn a year.

"The abuse cost is more than we can afford, and the combined total of that and our regular running costs is enough to put us out of business," the company emailed users in March.

After the application of the alternate (lower) ratio of incremental opioid abuse costs to costs incurred by non-abusers as calculated by Rossiter et al to the country-specific estimates of the costs of chronic pain conditions, the annual health care burden of RxO abuse ranged from €0.6 million to €46.6 million.

We also assumed that various estimates based on studies conducted in the US were applicable to the EU5 countries considered in this study, including the aforementioned ratio of incremental opioid abuse costs to costs incurred by non-abusers and the relative magnitude of RxO abuse among treatment center clients as compared to the general population.

But many are impatient for results and aware that alcohol abuse costs Scotland some £3.6 billion a year.

Cameron will say that alcohol abuse costs A&E services £1bn out of the £2.7bn a year.

Substance abuse costs this country $277 billion per year in medical costs, crime and lost productivity, yet only half of those who seek treatment can get it on demand.