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In what two ways does substance abuse effect the society?
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-In the workplace it is costly in terms of lost work time and inefficiency.
-Over half of the highway deaths in the United States involve alcohol.
-Drug related crime can disrupt neighborhoods due to violence among drug dealers, threats to residents, and the crimes of the addicts themselves.
-Violence among drug dealers, threats to residents, and the crimes of the addicts themselves. In some neighborhoods, younger children are recruited as lookouts and helpers because of the lighter sentences given to juvenile offenders.
-The great majority of homeless people have either a drug or alcohol problem or a mental illness.