Financial Crisis
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.
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.
