Financial Distress Associated With Drug Abuse

While financial chaos and stress may be a new challenge to many Americans, it is something that the families of drug addicts are all too familiar with.

The cost of drug addiction is high on all fronts.  Feeding an addiction costs money – the drug dealer charges a lot – sometimes 100 dollars a pill.   Quite often the drug addict runs out of money quickly and starts stealing money from the family.  More costs come in the way of medical bills, wrecked cars and attorneys.  Families of drug addicts get used to finding their nicest jewelry missing and looking for state funded rehab after the last pricy rehab didn’t work.

Mary Rieser, Executive Director for Narconon Drug Rehab Georgia comments, “The price tag for society is high with lost productivity in the work place, stolen property from retail and the cost of prison.  It is estimated that one drug addict can cost up to one million dollars to family and society in a life time.”

And for what?  It is millions spent on perpetuating misery while keeping attorneys and prison contractors in business.  The whole economic system around addiction, from dealer to jailer thrives on the apparent perpetual state of addiction. At the end of the day, everyone seems to come out OK financially except for the addict and family.

During this recession, the families of addicts must assess how to cut their losses.  Research on which drug treatment programs really do work is imperative to anyone who wants to save the life of a loved one and their financial future.
 
Narconon has a 76% success rate and the majority of our graduates return to society as productive citizens.

If you know someone who is drug addicted, then call Narconon.  We have a 76% success rate.

Call Narconon Drug Rehab 1-877-413-3073 for more information on effective drug treatment.

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