'Breaking Bad' inspires local rehab center
It's basically a contest for people struggling with addiction, and the clinic says AMC's Breaking Bad inspired the idea. A show about drugs might seem like an unusual inspiration for a rehab scholarship, but any addicts have trouble finding affordable …
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New Rehab Center Opens at Marion VA
Officials cut the ribbon Wednesday afternoon for the new Illinois AMVETS high-tech care center. The veterans organization … The new rehab center will help the VA save money, upgrade its treatment, and care of more patients. The building gives them …
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Back in Rehab, De La Hoya Fights Old Enemies
De La Hoya checked back into a treatment center this week, perhaps his biggest week since he retired as one of the most popular boxers ever. He will miss the fight of the year, set up by him and his Golden Boy Promotions. It all aligned so perfectly …
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2 People Shot At Richardson Rehab Center
RICHARDSON (CBSDFW.COM) – A man at a rehabilitation center in Richardson shot one person in the leg before turning the gun on himself on Monday night. The incident happened at about 9:30 p.m. in the 1400 block of Lamp Post Lane. The drug and …
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State-funded rehab clinics face budget cuts
The state should expand, not close, treatment facilities.” The three state alcohol and drug abuse treatment centers, Walter B. Jones in Greenville, R.J. Blackley in Butner and Julian Keith in Black Mountain, provide inpatient intensive care for low …
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Pennsylvania Hospital to Start Inpatient Care for Internet Addiction
Media includes anything from television to the Internet. Although some people might not believe that an addiction to media is real, a hospital located in Pennsylvania announced that it would start the first ever inpatient treatment program in the …
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A Primer on Dakota Johnson, 50 Shades' New Star
What She'll "Open Up About" in Interviews: In September 2007, she completed a 30-day inpatient rehab program at the Visions Teen Treatment Center in Malibu for drug and alcohol addiction. She also participated in an outpatient program in Brentwood.
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Kindred Healthcare Completes Sale of 14 Non-Strategic Facilities Outside …
… the “Facilities”) consist of 14 transitional care (“TC”) hospitals (certified as long-term acute care (“LTAC”) hospitals) containing 1,002 licensed beds, one inpatient rehabilitation facility containing 44 licensed beds and one skilled nursing …
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Forced Drug Treatment
The Duke study evaluating whether improved clinical outcomes result from psychiatric coercion (“Program Compelling Outpatient Treatment for Mental Illness Is Working, Study Says,” news article, July 30) shows that if disturbed people are forced out of …
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Heroin use on the rise in rural areas
Legal drug consumption spaces aimed at drug rehabilitation have been set up in Germany where drug addicts can take drugs in clean and safe conditions under surveillance of volunteers. by Gigi Douban · Marketplace for Monday, September 2, 2013. Story …
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Program targets prescription drug abuse
By modernizing and enhancing the way prescription drugs are monitored in New York state, health care experts and lawmakers hope to curb the abuse of controlled substances that can be lethal. For law enforcement, strengthening the way the state monitors …
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Schneiderman highlights innovative program to prevent prescription drug abuse
Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today joined elected officials and community leaders from New York to celebrate the implementation of a key component of the state's innovative program for preventing prescription drug abuse. Introduced in June …
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Addiction Treatment Helpline Opens its Doors at a New Office in Philadelphia
The Addiction Treatment Helpline is pleased to announce the opening of its newest office located at 1500 Market Street in Philadelphia. The Addiction Treatment Helpline currently serves the New England and Upper Atlantic states with a complete resource …
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Prostitution often grows from a life filled with trauma
Philadelphia police made 633 prostitution arrests in the first half of this year. Street prostitution and drug addiction tend to go hand in hand, but many prostitutes who get busted and put in mandatory drug treatment end up back on the streets …
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Wednesday's Sports In Brief
The posting added that Sharapova plans "on taking the next few weeks off, receiving proper treatment and rehabilitation." The draw for the year's last Grand Slam tournament is Thursday, and play begins Monday. NEW YORK (AP) — Former … PHILADELPHIA …
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Question by Evan: I NEED TO KNOW THE MONEY SPENT ON ALCOHOL REHABS YEARLY. RECENT AND RELIABLE PLZ.?
RECENT AND RELIABLE PLZ.

Best answer:

Answer by raysny
The most recent I could find for the US has the figures for 1997:

“A study shows that the U.S. spent a combined $ 11.9 billion on alcohol and drug abuse treatment, while the total social costs were more than $ 294 billion. The results were part of the National Estimates of Expenditures for Substance Abuse Treatment, 1997, which was released at the end of April by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s Center for Substance Abuse Treatment.

The report, prepared by the MEDSTAT Group for SAMHSA, examines how much is spent in the U.S. to treat alcohol and drug abuse, how that spending has changed between 1987 and 1997, how much of the spending is done by the private and public sectors, and how substance abuse expenditures compare to spending for mental health and other health conditions in the U.S.”
http://www.usmedicine.com/newsDetails.cfm?dailyID=54

In NY:
“States report spending $ 2.5 billion a year on treatment. States did not distinguish whether the treatment was for alcohol, illicit drug abuse or nicotine addiction. Of the $ 2.5 billion total, $ 695 million is spent through the departments of health and $ 633 million through the state substance abuse agencies. We believe that virtually all of these funds are spent on alcohol and illegal drug treatment.”
Source: National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, Shoveling Up: The Impact of Substance Abuse on State Budgets (New York, NY: CASA, Jan. 2001), p. 24.

States Waste Billions Dealing with Consequences of Addiction, CASA Study Says
May 28, 2009

The vast majority of the estimated $ 467.7 billion in substance-abuse related spending by governments on substance-abuse problems went to deal with the consequences of alcohol, tobacco and other drug use, not treatment and prevention, according to a new report from the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University.

The report, titled, “Shoveling Up II: The Impact of Substance Abuse on Federal, State and Local Budgets,” found that 95 percent of the $ 373.9 billion spent by the federal government and states went to paying for the societal and personal damage caused by alcohol and other drug use; the calculation included crime, health care costs, child abuse, domestic violence, homelessness and other consequences of tobacco, alcohol and illegal and prescription drug abuse and addiction.

Just 1.9 percent went to treatment and prevention, while 0.4 percent was spent on research, 1.4 percent went towards taxation and regulation, and 0.7 percent went to interdiction.

“Such upside-down-cake public policy is unconscionable,” said Joseph A. Califano, Jr., CASA’s founder and chairman. “It’s past time for this fiscal and human waste to end.”

CASA estimated that the federal government spent $ 238.2 billion on substance-abuse related issues in 2005, while states spent $ 135.8 billion and local governments spent $ 93.8 billion. The report said that 58 percent of spending was for health care and 13.1 percent on justice systems.

Researchers estimated that 11.2 percent of all federal and state government spending went towards alcohol, tobacco and other drug abuse and addictions and its consequences. The report said that Connecticut spent the most proportionately on prevention, treatment and research — $ 10.39 of every $ 100 spent on addiction issues — while New Hampshire spent the least — 22 cents.
http://www.jointogether.org/news/headlines/inthenews/2009/states-waste-billions-dealing.html

Key Findings

Of the $ 3.3 trillion total federal and state government spending, $ 373.9 billion –11.2 percent, more than one of every ten dollars– was spent on tobacco, alcohol and illegal and prescription drug abuse and addiction and its consequences.

The federal government spent $ 238.2 billion (9.6 percent of its budget) on substance abuse and addiction. If substance abuse and addiction were its own budget category at the federal level, it would rank sixth, behind social security, national defense, income security, Medicare and other health programs including the federal share of Medicaid.

State governments spent $ 135.8 billion (15.7 percent of their budgets) to deal with substance abuse and addiction, up from 13.3 percent in 1998. If substance abuse and addiction were its own state budget category, it would rank second behind spending on elementary and secondary education.

Local governments spent $ 93.8 billion on substance abuse and addiction (9 percent of their budgets), outstripping local spending for transportation and public welfare.¹

For every $ 100 spent by state governments on substance abuse and addiction, the average spent on prevention, treatment and research was $ 2.38; Connecticut spent the most, $ 10.39; New Hampshire spent the least, $ 0.22.

For every dollar the federal and state governments spent on prevention and treatment, they spent $ 59.83 shoveling up the consequences, despite a growing

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