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Tobacco costs the U.S. economy how much money per year
What is 200 billion dollars?
100
Typical perception people have of the common alcohol and drug abuser
What are unemployed, homeless, and no purpose or direction?
100
Gender that is more severely affected economically as a result of drinking habits
What is female?
100
Another word for cannabis
What is marijuana?
200
Percentage of societal costs of drug use that are health related (Lower than 20%)
What is 10%?
200
The disease most affiliated with illicit drug use
What is HIV/AIDS?
200
This act was passed in 1988 concerning employer safety
What is The Drug Free Workplace Act?
200
Second most commonly used illicit drug in the U.S.
What is cocaine?
300
Estimated value of the global drug market at the retail level in 2003
What is $13 billion dollars?
300
These members of society pay the costs for substance abuse
Who are victims and their families?
300
A person that smuggles drugs across boarders by placing cocaine in balloons in their rectal cavity
What are mules?
300
First country in the world to offer medical marijuana
Who is Canada?
400
Number of different brands of heroin identified by Golstein and collegues
What is 400
400
There is often violence between these two members of the drug trade
Who are dealers and buyers?
400
Out of the entire illicit underground drug economy this step is the most risky
What is retailing?
400
The man who created Aspirin marketed this hard drug as a cough suppressant
What is heroin?
500
Percentage of people who use and sell vs. percentage of people who sell and use "hard drugs"
What is 23% and 70%?
500
A program dedicated to helping individuals in the workplace with drug and alcohol abuse issues by providing confidential employer financed programs
What are Employee Assistance Programs?
500
These are the primary elements that account for lost economic productivity in the U.S.
What are premature death, lower employability and wages, treatment programs and hospitals/prisons
500
Average age of first experimentation with drugs
What is 13?