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Drug addiction treatment and dual diagnosis treatment is cost-effective in reducing drug use and its associated health and social costs. Treatment is less expensive than alternatives, such as not treating addicts or simply incarcerating addicts. For example, the average cost for 1 full year of methadone maintenance treatment is approximately $4,700 per patient, whereas 1 full year of imprisonment costs approximately $18,400 per person.

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'Extreme Drinking' Dangerous for College Students
Although 40 percent of college freshmen say they binge drink -- five or more drinks on one occasion -- a new study has found than up to 20 percent...

Do You Have an Alcohol or Drug Problem?
Alcohol and drug use can progress into abuse and even addiction so insidiously that sometimes people do not realize that it has become a problem for them and those...

College Drinking, Drug Use Grows More Extreme
Since 1993, the number of college students who drink and binge drink has remained about the same, in spite of all prevention efforts. Perhaps more alarming, the intensity of...

Colleges Try to Decrease Binge Drinking
The University of Virginia has become the latest college to try to discourage incoming freshmen from dangerous binge drinking by requiring them to attend an orientation session devoted entirely...

New Test Effective in Detecting Heavy Drinkers
The sooner alcohol problems are addressed the better the outcome and the less long-term damage is done from excessive drinking. Physicians and healthcare providers now have a new chemical-based...

College Presidents Promote Change in Drinking Age
Almost 100 university and college presidents are calling on Congress to reconsider lowering the drinking age from age 21 to 18 claiming that the current laws actually encourage dangerous...

The Health Effects of Cocaine
Cocaine can be snorted, injected and even smoked in some forms of the drug. In all cases cocaine is a strong central nervous system stimulant which can produce a...

August Is National Medicine Abuse Awareness Month
This year's observance of National Medicine Abuse Awareness Month is aimed at educating parents about the danger of medicine abuse among young children, especially the abuse of cough mediations...

Alcohol and Drug Abuse in the News
• Guns N' Roses Drummer Enters Plea Ordered to stay in rehab. • FDA Considers Training Doctors To write painkiller prescriptions. • Methadone Prescriptions, Deaths Increase No. 1 drug killer in the U.S. • 12-Year-Old Designated Driver Mom arrested in bar. • 7...

Are You Enabling an Alcoholic or Addict?
Often well-meaning efforts to help someone with an alcohol or drug problem actually allow them continue their destructive behavior. Answering these questions can help you determine if you might...