What is the cost of addiction?

With more than 70,000 lives lost in the United States in 2017, and the federal government investing billions of dollars into prevention, treatment and recovery over the past several years, the drug problems faced by the country is not only a deadly problem, but an expensive one.  Of the 70,000 overdose deaths in 2017, nearly 50,000 of them involved the use of opioids.  According to a report, Tracking Federal Funding to Combat the Opioid Crisis, released by the […]
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