Table 3.
Sensitivity analysis for estimated avoided costs when compared to the referent health state of relapse (2013 CAD)‡.
| Health state |
Monthly avoided costs [95% C.I.] | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (1) Baseline† | (2) Third party | (3) Arrests & charges | (4) Balanced panel | |||||
| Full sample (2232 observations) | ||||||||
| Health state: | ||||||||
| Relapse | Referent health state | |||||||
| Opioid abstinence | $6563** | [$1564, $11,561] | $5859*** | [$1539, $10,178] | $312** | [$6, $618] | $6531*** | [$1729, $11,333] |
| MMT high effectiveness | $6298*** | [$1578, $11,017] | $5551*** | [$1449, $9654] | $386*** | [$178, $595] | $6061** | [$1296, $10,826] |
| MMT low effectiveness | $3566 | [−$1118, $8250] | $3223 | [−$902, $7347] | $19 | [−$242, $280] | $2975 | [−$2125, $8075] |
| Incident-based costs | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | ||||
| Criminal justice system costs | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||
| Arrest costs only | No | No | Yes | No | ||||
| Victimization costs | Yes | No | No | Yes | ||||
p-Value <0.10
p-value <0.05
p-value <0.01.
All costs estimated from average marginal effects derived from a two-part multiple regression model.
Refers to estimates presented in Table 2.