A Study Attempted to Intervene in Heroin Overdoses in the Midwest

Multiple Choice

A study attempted to intervene in heroin overdoses in the Midwest by giving away an expensive antidote medicine to local clinics and users' support centers.However,the intervention achieved only small effects,with treatment areas having only slightly lower reported overdoses than control areas.A cost-benefit analysis of such a study might determine what?

A) The intervention is too expensive to warrant its expansion.
B) The high costs are worth achieving even small effects in a life-or-death social problem.
C) Translating the results to a larger environment will be easy.
D) The difficulty of estimating the value of life negates the purpose of a cost-benefit analysis.