More than half of all adults have a family history of alcohol abuse.
Studies show that every dollar spent on treatment leads to a $7.46 reduction in legal, social and other costs to taxpayers.
If you do not suffer from an addiction by the age of 25, you are less likely to become addicted.
Less than 20 percent of Americans who need treatment receive it.
Almost 50 percent of Americans struggling with addiction do not receive treatment due to insurance barriers.
Twenty-five percent of all people admitted to hospitals are admitted for problems related to alcohol.
Nearly 1 out of 5 people detained in American prisons committed their offences to obtain money for drugs.
The average individual suffering from an addiction needs $200 per day to support the disease.
Ninety percent of property crimes and muggings are related to drugs.
Theories posit that people suffering from addiction self-medicate a physical, emotional or spiritual hurt.
Currently, an estimated 25 million Americans are addicted to drugs and alcohol.
Approximately 80% of all crime in the US is related to drug or alcohol addiction.
People who have been drinking are at greater risk of being the victim of a violent crime.
Cocaine overdose caused approximately 25,000 emergency room admissions in 1997.
About 135,000 people die each year as a consequence of alcohol and drug abuse, not including tobacco.
About 335,000 people die every year as a direct result of their use of tobacco products.
More than 1,700 high school and college students die of alcohol poisoning or alcohol-related injuries each year.
In 2004, NIH set the annual costs of underage drinking at $19 billion from traffic accidents and $29 billion from violent crime.
From 1992 to 2003, the abuse of controlled prescription drugs by 12 to 17 year olds more than tripled, rising to $2.3 million.
Expert estimates of the number of crimes committed by one single drug addict range from 89 to 191 a year.
