Updated cost effectiveness analysis of the Navy drug and alcohol rehabilitation program

A previous cost benefit analysis of the Navy drug and alcohol rehabilitation program equated the value of benefits to the avoided replacement costs of the service members successfully rehabilitated. This thesis updates this study. In particular, this thesis considers the replacement cost model and identifies an improvement to the previous methodology. The previous model misspecifies average replacement costs and overestimates the program benefits. A new rehabilitation treatment model is developed within this thesis. The value of the rehabilitation benefit is based on the Navy's desired manning objective. This more accurately reflects the rehabilitation benefit as the Navy downsizes its force structure.

Department dc:contributor.department

Department of Administrative Sciences

Grantor dc:publisher

Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School

Year dc:date.issued

1993

Author dc:creator

• Erb, Katherine D. C.

Advisors dc:contributor.advisor

• Terasawa, Katsuaki L.
• Gates, William R.

Statement dc:rights

• This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.

Language dc:language.iso

en_US

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/10945/39680

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:calhoun.nps.edu:10945/39680