The cost of drug and alcohol abuse on society ...

I found these web sites regarding your question.

http://nationalsubstanceabuseindex.org/ohio/index.php

http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov/MeetingAbstracts/ma?f=102272191.html

For more information I suggest you contact the Ohio Department of Alcohol and Drug Addiction.

Why not go to the root of 99% of the problems with people...

Go back in time to when money was thought up. Bang! there is your problem...

MONEY. It simply IS the root of all EVIL. Who said it was the love of it ? is the root of all evil ? GOD , I think. But he probally thought humans would become intelligent enough to control the evil that came of it. Apparently not, and that is why the apocolypse is currently happening, if you have not noticed... I AM his last messenger and it does seem when I get upset, so does the planet earth, not the people, but the liveing planet. Anyways, as usual, people will want to lock up or kill/crucify the one who BELIEVES HIGHEST IN GOD, and wants to save the people on this rock, but their love of money may soon doom them anyway. I could explain how these drug users lost hope of ever haveing the life they wanted and that is why they gave up on themselves, just liveing day by day and hopeing for the end to the madness of money loveing. But I will not, because snotty people who choose to ignore the truth of how humans turned this bad, simply turn their heads and ignore the truth that is sitting right in front of their faces...If you cannot figure out the truth, then you do not deserve to know it. Turn on the news, which I know call the comedy channel, for it makes me laugh when people say they need money to care for and help people, when all they need is love/understanding/faith/care/effort/will to help... People do not eat money, they do not drink it, they do not inhale it, they do not stand under it for shelter, nor do they need it to show CARE!...The whole reason of why it came into existence in the first place, is because of CAPITALISM, basically, some bad people who wanted a free ride through life, and a way of starting wars, and gaining power? followers? to idle them ? and thank them ? for makeing them work ? ...It was all a crock of B.S. and still remains so.  If people DID--- stop working for themselves, because of laziness or whatever. They would simply die from the elements and hunger. So of course they would keep working...But rotten leaders who want money to be king on this earth screwed it up, and stopped careing about the ones who made them rich in the first place. I AM sure every one of these drug/alcohol users have a tail of somekind, that lead them into their half lives, and I can bet that most of the stories will relate to money in one way or another...

Way tyo go humans, for tortureing yourselves for thousands of years, all for the love of money...

The best way to get rid of this love for money is simply get rid of it! PHASE IT OUT LIKE A PERSON WHO WAS DEPENDENT ON DRUGS IS PHASED OUT, OR WEENING A BABY... We are ready , to grow up , now letys do it already, before the deadline comes...  TIMEING IS EVERTHING I GUESS. wasnt my idea though...