Chemical Dependency
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• The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy conducted a survey and found that between 1988 and 1995, Americans spent over $57 billion on illegal drugs of abuse. • The Lewin Group for the National Institute on Drug Abuse found that in 1992, the estimated total economic cost of alcohol and drug abuse was $245.7 billion. This estimate included the cost for substance abuse treatment, costs associated with decreased work productivity and lost job time, costs associated with drug-related crime, and expenditures for social welfare programs. • The Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) estimated in 2005 that there were 816,696 emergency department visits associated with illicit drug use, 492,655 emergency department visits associated with alcohol use, and 598,542 emergency department visits associated with non-medical use of prescription drugs. • The rates of morbidity and mortality related to alcohol abuse are enormous. It has been estimated that there are over 100,000 deaths each year caused by alcohol, making it the third leading cause of preventable mortality CDC • According to the Centers for Disease Control, cigarette smoking is responsible for approximately 438,000 deaths in the United States each year. • The 1996 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse estimated that there were 13 million users of illicit drugs in the United States, 10% of all Americans abuse, or are dependent on alcohol, and 25% of all Americans smoke. • The 2002 National Survey on Drug Use and Health found that approximately 46% of all Americans – 108 million people – had tried an illicit drug at least once in their lives. • Deaths from overdose have increased by 540% since 1980.
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