A Blind Eye To Addiction

      DRUG AND ALCOHOL ADDICTS IN THE US 

Addiction is america's most neglected disease according to a columbia university study 40 millions american age 12 and over meet the clinical criteria for addiction involving nicotine alcohol or other drug that's more americans that those with heart disease diabetes or cancer an estimated additional 80 millions people in this country are risky substance users meaning that while not additional they use tobacco alcohol and other drugs in ways that threaten public health and safety the costs to government coffers alone exceed $468 billion annually.

Over 38,000 peopled died of drugs overdoses in the u.s in 2010 greater than the deaths attributed to motor vehicle accidents homicides and suicides overdose deaths from opioids have become the fastest growing drug problems throughout the us and not just in large urban settings.