• Substance abuse costs the health care system about $11 billion, with overall costs reaching $193 billion.
• Over 30 million people abuse Crystal Meth worldwide.
• Currently 7.1 million adults, over 2 percent of the population in the U.S. are locked up or on probation; about half of those suffer from some kind of addiction to heroin, alcohol, crack, crystal meth, or some other drug but only 20 percent of those addicts actually get effective treatment as a result of their involvement with the judicial system.
• The United States represents 5% of the world's population and 75% of prescription drugs taken. 60% of teens who abuse prescription drugs get them free from friends and relatives.
• The National Institutes of Health suggests, the vast majority of people who commit crimes have problems with drugs or alcohol, and locking them up without trying to address those problems would be a waste of money.
• 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
• Misuse of alcohol and illicit drugs affects society through costs incurred secondary to crime, reduced productivity at work, and health care expenses.
• A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
• The word cocaine refers to the drug in a powder form or crystal form.
• Painkillers are among the most commonly abused prescription drugs.
• Twenty-five percent of those who began abusing prescription drugs at age 13 or younger met clinical criteria for addiction sometime in their life.
• Over 5 million emergency room visits in 2011 were drug related.
• In 2014, over 354,000 U.S. citizens were daily users of Crack.

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