There's no doubt that drug abuse has a significant effect on the world. As a matter of fact, drug dependence is known for costing America trillions of dollars each year. billions. Then what would the world be like if drug abuse only didn’ ’t be? How much greater could it be?  Take a look. According to the office of Justice Statistics (BJS ) , nearly 70% of government prisoners and 57% of government prisoners employed drugs before they were jailed. Some of the reasons behind crime – feelings like homicide, theft and rape – drop on the shoulders of drug abuse. Drug abuse also propels some people to commit different offenses, like stealing money, in order to get drugs. In the world without drug abuse, the amount of gross crimes and state/federal inmates would surely change. Almost 5 million middle school students (30 percent) and 9.5 million high school students (60 percent) said they were attending schools where illegal substances were used, kept and sold. These students were nearly twice as likely to smoke, drink or use illicit substances as students who said that their schools were substance-free.

Researchers found that using substances and addiction will add at the least $41 billion (10 percent) to the costs of elementary, middle, and high schools due to class disruption and violence, special education and tutoring, truancies, children that are left behind, student assistance programs, property damage, injury and counseling.

Each year, there were 13 million incidents where a 12-to-17-year-old tried things like tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, or some other illicit substance.

These numbers are only increasing. It is estimated that approximately 1 million kids have been arrested for drug abuse. This number is expected to increase by about 20 percent in the next five years, according to the National Institute on drug abuse. The problem with school discipline is that it does not work effectively because it is based on the idea of punishment rather than rehabilitation.For decades, researchers have tried to determine how the cycle of drug abuse begins and who is most at risk for developing an addiction. The question still remains though, why do some kids use drugs? And among those kids, why do some get addicted while others don’t get addicted? The thing is, there's no specific reason. components that cause whether someone becomes addicted involve genetics and their family environment. But even people who are susceptible to the same risk factors may have completely different experiences—one may get addicted while the other can use substances like drugs and never develop a problem. Not all youth will develop a drug or alcohol use disorder, but mounting stressors may make it more likely. Some adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), like child abuse or divorce, may affect individuals all the way into adulthood. Clinicians ask about their patients’ adverse childhood experiences in order to assess the impact of early trauma on their lives. A larger number of adverse childhood experiences can have a direct effect on an individual’s behavioral health. Examples of ACEs include: Witnessing domestic violence in the home, growing up with family members who abuse drugs or alcohol, experiencing physical, verbal, or sexual abuse. Being physically or emotionally neglected, Seeing a parent treated violently.

Mental illness in the household, Experiencing a divorce, Having a family member incarcerated.

Drug abuse continues to be an important public health problem throughout the world. Although considerable progress has been made in identifying effective prevention approaches, there is a large gap between what research has shown to be effective and the methods normally used in a majority of schools. The most promising prevention approaches target people during the beginning of adolescence and teach drug resistance skills and norm setting either alone or in combination with general personal and social skills.

I urge you to please work with parents, health care professionals, and other community officials to please stop this.

 the drug abuse  hotline is  1-800-662-4357