REASONS TO DONATE

Statistics on Alcohol Addiction and Abuse:

Addiction is a disease just as diabetes and cancer are diseases. It is not a weakness. People of all ages, classes and ethnic backgrounds can get an addiction. Addiction does not discriminate.

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• Alcohol and drug addiction cost the U.S. economy over $600 billion every year

• About 88,000 people die as a result of alcohol every year in the United States

• In 2017, approximately 2.3 million Americans between the ages of 12 and 17 and 2.4 million Americans between the ages of 18 and 25 started to drink alcohol

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Statistics on Opioid Addiction and Abuse:

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About 130 Americans die every day from an opioid overdose.

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• In 2017 alone, 47,600 fatal overdoses occurred in America which involved at least one opioid

• About 5% of people with an opioid use disorder will try heroin Statistics on Heroin Addiction and Abuse

• In 2017, 886,000 Americans used heroin at least once

• In 2017, over 15,000 Americans died from a heroin overdose

*Source – United States Addiction Center for Disease Control

According to the National Institute on Alcohol and Addiction, ground zero in the Opioid, Methamphetamine and Alcohol crisis lies within a 100-mile radius of Youngstown, Ohio when including West Virginia and Pennsylvania, affecting everyone in our community and taking thousands of lives.