Effects on society

•Staggering expenses effecting the society and families

•Rising number of addiction cases and decreasing average age of addicts

•According to NIDA, an economic impact on society of about $67 billion per year (crimes and incarceration,  drug addiction treatment, medical costs from overdoses and drug-related injuries)

•One of the fastest ways to spread HIV due to sharing needles and other drug paraphernalia and through just the effect of the drug on a person’s judgment

–According to NIDA, drug abuse is now the single largest factor in the spread of HIV in the U.S.