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What addiction really costs your state: detailed state by state expenditures

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

A message from Join Together at CASA* ==================================== May 28, 2009 Dear Colleague, According to a report CASA issued this morning, federal, state and local governments spend almost half a trillion dollars every year -- almost 11 percent of their total budgets -- as a result of alcohol, tobacco and other drug abuse and addiction. The worst part is that, for federal and state spending, about 95% of that money is spent "Shoveling Up" the mess created by a failure to provide enough money for prevention and treatment. That's right. Out of every dollar federal and state governments spent on substance misuse in 2005 (the latest data available), 95 cents paid for the enormous burden of this problem on health care, criminal justice, child welfare, education, and other programs...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on May 29, 2009 (boomark / email).