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Joey Ertler
4/2/18
Professor Ciccanti
Drugs and Crime
Addiction Homework
Addiction is a huge problem in the world today, specifically right here in the United
States. It actually happens to be a lot more common in the world then people may realize. In
2011 there was approximately 20.6 million people in the U.S. over the age of 12 with an
addiction. An even more troubling statistic is out of the 20.6 million people only 3 million were
receiving the treatments that they needed. 100+ people die every day from drug overdoses, the
rate has tripled in the last decade and there is absolutely no signs of it slowing down. In our
