Thursday, September 24, 2009

The Impact of Substance Abuse on Federal, State and Local Budgets

The CASA report found that of $373.9 billion in federal and state spending, 95.6 percent ($357.4 billion) went to shovel up the consequences and human wreckage of substance abuse and addiction; only 1.9 percent went to prevention and treatment, 0.4 percent to research, 1.4 percent to taxation and regulation, and 0.7 percent to interdiction.

Link to article: http://bit.ly/ZKDfs

We need a mental revolution...

 

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