Do you know or have you witnessed someone who is:

• Suffering from the addiction to drugs or alcohol?
• Is poor and homeless ?

• Every dollar spent on treatment leads to a $7.46 reduction of crime-related expenses and lost productivity. When health care savings are added in, every $1 invested in treatment for addiction yields a total return of $12 saved.

• Treatment of all addicts would save more than $150 billion in social costs over the next 15 years.

• Treatment is 15 to 17 times more effective than prison. For every 1 crime that incarceration would eliminate, treatment would eliminate 15.

• Millions of lives are affected each year due to drugs, alcoholism, and homelessness.

• Studies show an estimated 20 million people are addicted to drugs.

• Approximately 135,000 people die each year as a consequence of drugs and alcohol.

• Approximately 80% of all crime in the US is related to drug or alcohol addiction.

• More than 2 million people are incarcerated in consequence of drug or alcohol addiction. (Incarceration has proven to negatively impact the problem, cost more than treatment, and create more problems.)

• 700,000 to 2 million people suffer from homelessness on any given night.