Many people often wonder how drugs effect the community. Here are just a few of the ways:
* Drug-related crime disrupts neighborhoods with violence between dealers, threats to residents and the crime of the addicts themselves
* Teens between 12 and 17 that use alcohol and/or drugs have much higher rates of violent behavior
* Many (around 50%) of the homeless have a drug or alcohol problem
* 513,000 people are injured in alcohol-related crashes every year
* In 2000, $161 billion:
–$110 billion in lost productivity
–$12.9 billion in healthcare costs
–$35 billion in other costs, such as agencies that work to stop drug use
* Drugs spread infectious diseases such as HIV and hepatitis C
* Drug use affects the unborn by causing birth defects and health problems
* Children of drug users are often neglected or abused
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