Alcohol & Drug Abuse is Everybody's Problem

National Data Shows

• Nearly 1 in 5 Fedral Medicaid health care dollars are spent on physical illnesses resulting from alcohol and drug abuse.
  
• Up to 50% of all general hospital admissions are alcohol and drug related.
  
• Untreated alcoholics incur general health care costs that are at least 100% higher than those of non-alcoholics
  
• 60%-80% of criminal defendants are addicted to drugs or alcohol.
  
• More than 5% (221,000) of the 4 million women who give birth each year use illicit drugs during pregnancy.
  
• 71% of all current illicit drug users age 18 and older (7.4 million adults) are employed
  
• The avrage age to begin drinking is 13.
  
• Nearly 1 in 20 of today's high school seniors and 1 in 30 of today's 10th graders is a current, daily marijuana user.