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 …
It Could Be A War Crime To Use Biologically Enhanced Soldiers
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But as Abney pointed out, there's other research that aims to produce drugs and treatments that can erase memories; post-traumatic stress disorder is a serious problem that the Pentagon would dearly love to stamp out. …. "The idea of 'inhumane …
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King: Obama MLK Bible use 'heartwarming'
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This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time ….. (He had, had a demon possessed son who had just about drove him and his wife to insanity, but now, by prayer and the grace of …
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