For Our Health and Safety : Joining Forces to Defeat Addiction

Recommends how state & community leaders in California could employ sound science to better respond to drug addition, one of the most costly & harmful problems facing the state. One in 9 Californians suffers from an addiction to alcohol or other drugs. Drug addiction underlies the abuse & neglect of more than 100,000 children in CA & is a factor in a majority of domestic assaults. Eight in 10 felons who are sent to prison abuse drugs or alcohol. Some $11 billion is spent by CA responding to the problems created by abuse or addiction, causing over $32 billion in economic losses. Chapters: A Story of Recovery; Creating a Strategy for Reducing Abuse; Setting Priorities; Ensuring Quality Treatment; & Expanding Resources for Treatment. Illustrated.Alpert, Michael E. is the author of 'For Our Health and Safety : Joining Forces to Defeat Addiction', published 2003 under ISBN 9780756734268 and ISBN 0756734266.