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Published Date: January 2001
This report is the first comprehensive analysis of how much substance abuse and addiction costs each state budget. This unprecedented analysis shows that states spent a stunning $81.3 billion in 1998 to deal with this issue—13.1% of their budgets. Even more striking is that of every dollar states spent on substance abuse, 96 cents went to shovel up the wreckage in state programs and only four cents went to prevent and treat the problem. This report provides state specific estimates for 45 responding states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico for 16 categories of programs including health, social service, criminal justice, education, mental health and public safety. CASA estimated aggregate spending in the five states that did not respond to our survey (IN, ME, NH, NC and TX).