psychiatry

Dollars spent on prevention vs ‘cleaning up the mess’

Click over to "Shrink rap" (a good psychiatry blog) for the longer version of this informative post.  An except:According to a report CASA issued this morning, federal, state and local governments spend almost half a trillion dollars every year -- almost 11 percent of their total budgets -- as a result of alcohol, tobacco and other drug abuse and addiction. [...]