Drug Addiction Impact on Society

Acorrding to NIDA (National Institute on Drug Abuse), drugs and alcohol has an impact of $67 billion per year. This includes costs related to crimes and incarceration, drug addiction treatment, medical costs from overdoses and drug related injuries and complications, time lost from work and social welfare programs. Because drug addiction and alcoholism are diseases of the brain, which is the center of judgment and behavioral patterns, drug addicts and alcoholics have a disturbingly high propensity to commit unlawful and immoral acts to obtain these substances because of the feeleing of power, indestructability which leads to aggressive and impulsive behavior.


Drug Addiction is on of the fastes ways to spread AIDS, by the sharing of needles and using drugs may lead a person to make bad decisions and participate in sexual activities with an infected individual. According to NIDA, drug addictions is now the single largest factor in the spread of HIV in the U.S.

Although there are millions of organizations and programs to prevent drug abuse and thousands of pages about this topic, it doesn't compare anything to the feeling of devastation and hopelessness felt by drug addicts and their families. The emotion of failure, anger, depression, confusion, and hundred more emotions can't be described in stadistics.



With special programs, treatment centers, rehabilitation, and most important, INFORMATION, we can do all we can to educate people about addictions and their consequences, not just physical consequences, also including social consequences. Until you go through it or watch a loved one going throught it, there is no other way to feel the true effects of Drug Addiction.