EQ: How much money is spent on drugs?

Bell Ringer  Use the graph on the hand out  Explain what the graph is showing  What is your opinion of this?

How many people and how much money is being spent on drugs?  Use the slips of paper given to your groups and stick them on the board under the drug you think they are describing  For each drug there should be one slip that describes the number of people who do the drug and one person with how much is spent per year on the drug

Answers: Analyze the numbers and write down three observations. What else could people do with this much money?  Alcohol: $104 Billion and 121,000,000 users  Tobacco: $51.9 Billion and 59,000,000 users  Marijuana: $11 Billion and 14,600,600 users  Cocaine: $36 Billion and 2,000,000 users  Meth: $5.4 Billion and 1,500,000 users  Heroine: $10 billion and 166,000 users

Drug abuse accounts for….  1/3 of hospital admissions  ¼ of all deaths  Majority of serious crimes  Medical and social costs of drug abuse exceed $240 billion per year

What should the government do??  Read statistics and answer questions with group