With some drugs, more is needed just to feel normal. When not taking the drug, users commonly experience depression that leads to compulsive drug use. Long-term substance abuse affects brain functioning, causing memory loss, learning difficulties and impaired judgment. Marijuana causes short-term memory problems.
1 Medicare beneficiaries paid an average of $725 per inpatient stay, [21] compared to $410 for each observation stay (and $528 if drug costs were included in each observation stay). [ 2 22].hort inpatient stays were often for the same reasons as observation stays. [19]. The Medicare program and Medicare beneficiaries pay more for short inpatient stays than for observation stays: 1  The Medicare program paid an average of $5,142 for each short inpatient stay, compared to $1,741 for each observation stay.
1 Spinal cord injury was the most expensive type of injury, with an average hospital cost per stay of $38,800 and a mean length of stay of 12.7 days. 2  However, these hospitalizations accounted for less than 1 percent of all injury-related hospital stays. The average cost per hospital inpatient stay in 2005 was $7,900, up an average of 5.7 percent annually since 1997. 2  After adjusting for inflation, the aggregate costs for all stays in community hospitals increased at a 5.1-percent average annual rate from 1997 to 2005.