Last week, the government announced a mega recapitalisation programme for PSU banks which have been reeling under the impact of rising bad loans. The total amount for the programme is a whopping Rs 2.11 lakh crore, out of which a significant Rs 1.35 lakh crore is via recap bonds. But so far, little is known with respect to the details of these bonds. One recourse is to look at how the government designed the recap bonds last time around, that is in mid 1990s when they were issued.
There was little difference in the treatment outcomes of those taking high-dose methadone or burprenorphine, with heroin addiction treatment success rates ranging from 72.7 percent for those in the methadone group to 20 percent for those patients on a low-dose of methadone.
Weestimate that the cost of heroin addiction in the United States was US$21.9 billion in 1996. Of these costs, productivity lossesaccounted for US$11.5 billion (53%), criminal activities US$5.2 billion (24%), medical care US$5.0 billion (23%), and socialwelfare US$0.1 billion (0.5%). Drug and Alcohol Dependence 61 (2001) 195â206 197 costs (23.9%) and comprise the legal, policing, andincarceration costs associated with heroin addiction, aswell as the cost to victims of crimes committed byheroin-dependent persons.