EQ: How much money is spent on

drugs?

Bell RingerUse the graph on the hand

out

Explain what the graph is showing

What is your opinion of this?

How many people and how much money is being spent on

drugs? Use the slips of paper given to your

groups and stick them on the board under the drug you think they are describing

For each drug there should be one slip that describes the number of people who do the drug and one person with how much is spent per year on the drug

Answers:Analyze the numbers and write down three observations. What else could people do with this much money?

Alcohol: $104 Billion and 121,000,000 users

Tobacco: $51.9 Billion and 59,000,000 users

Marijuana: $11 Billion and 14,600,600 users

Cocaine: $36 Billion and 2,000,000 users

Meth: $5.4 Billion and 1,500,000 users

Heroine: $10 billion and 166,000 users

Drug abuse accounts for….

1/3 of hospital admissions

¼ of all deaths

Majority of serious crimes

Medical and social costs of drug abuse exceed $240 billion per year

What should the government do??

Read statistics and answer questions with group