cost of addiction
The True Cost of Addiction. Between 2000 and 2010 approximately $100 billion was spent annually on cocaine, heroin, marijuana, and methamphetamine in the United States. When you consider the cost of addiction, you probably think of all the money it takes to sustain such a habit.
According to this same report, alcohol abuse and addiction have a social cost of roughly $185 billion each year, while tobacco addiction has a social cost of roughly $193 billion a year. When combined, the costs for these three categories of use equal about $559 billion per year.