Shoveling it Up: The Impact of Substance Abuse on Federal, State and Local Budgets [PDF]
Type: Report [PDF]Author/Source:The National Center for Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University, May 2009
Abstract:
This CASA report finds that in 2005 federal, state and local government spending as a result of substance abuse and addiction was at least $467.7 billion. The facts reveal the policies of government at every level spend virtually all of the funds in this area to shovel up the wreckage of substance abuse and addiction and practically nothing to prevent and treat it.
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