Drug Addiction Cost $600 Billion/ Year
Drug Addiction cost 0 Billion/ year – 600 Billion Dollars are spent each year on drug Addiction. Pls. let’s make a difference and not ignore this! Many people do not understand why or how other people become addicted to drugs. It can be wrongfully assumed that drug abusers lack moral principles or willpower and that they could stop using drugs simply by choosing to change their behavior. In reality, drug addiction is a complex disease, and quitting takes more than good intentions. In fact, because drugs change the brain in ways that foster compulsive drug abuse, quitting is difficult, even for those who are ready to do so. Through scientific advances, we know more about how drugs work in the brain than ever, and we also know that drug addiction can be successfully treated to help people stop abusing drugs and lead productive lives. Drug abuse and addiction have negative consequences for individuals and for society. Estimates of the total overall costs of substance abuse in the United States, including productivity and health- and crime-related costs, exceed 0 billion annually. This includes approximately 1 billion for illicit drugs,1 3 billion for tobacco,2 and 5 billion for alcohol.3 As staggering as these numbers are, they do not fully describe the breadth of destructive public health and safety implications of drug abuse and addiction, such as family disintegration, loss of employment, failure in school, domestic violence, and child abuse. What Is Drug Addiction? Addiction is a chronic, often …
Canada's new drug laws deliver a blow to dispensary operators
Filed under: principles of drug addiction treatment
The only other option available to the court is to suspend the sentence pending completion of a drug treatment program. … Not only do the new minimum sentences fly in the face of case law, he argued, they also offend basic sentencing principles. He …
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Beware of moving goal posts on border security enforcement
Filed under: principles of drug addiction treatment
The recent immigration-reform proposals unveiled by President Obama and a bipartisan group of Senators are very much in accord when it comes to general principles. Both proposals advocate smarter and more effective … Both stress the creation of a …
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