An alcohol-related family problem strikes one of every four American homes. Approximately one-half the cost of alcohol and drug abuse treatment is offset within one year by subsequent reductions in the use of medical services by not only the primary patient, but the affected family as well.
Cocaine is the most prevalent drug in Dallas, with crack the most common form of cocaine being used.
Forty-eight percent of females arrested in Dallas test positive for cocaine. Of these 50,000 a projected 11,000 are low birth weight. An estimated 280,000 pregnant women are in desperate need of drug treatment services in the United States. In 1992, over 375,000 babies were born to substance-abusing mothers, at a cost of billions of dollars to taxpayers.