Crack is Wack

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1. According to the 2009 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), illicit drug use in the United States has risen to its highest level in eight years. 

2.Clearly, increasing drug and alcohol abuse is a dangerous trend in the United States. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, nearly 2.1 million hospital Emergency Department visits in 2009 were the result of drug abuse.

3.Not only is drug and alcohol abuse in the United States dangerous, it’s also extremely costly.  In 2002, for example, the cost of substance abuse to American society was an estimated $181 billion

        4.Of these visits, 27.1 percent involved nonmedical use of pharmaceuticals, 21.2 percent involved illicit drugs, and 14.3 percent involved alcohol in combination with other drugs 5.  The NSDUH found that 8.7 percent of Americans aged 12 and older used illicit drugs in the month prior to the survey, a nine percent rise from the 2008 rate.