6/26/12 - Study Reveals: Addiction Treatment Neglected By U.S.
Medical System Columbia University/Press ReleaseThe Trust
provided funding for this study by Columbia University. NEW
YORK, June 26, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- SIXTEEN PERCENT
OF THE U.S. POPULATION HAS THE DISEASE OF ADDICTION; 90 PERCENT
OF PEOPLE WITH ADDICTION RECEIVE NO FORM OF TREATMENT AT ALL NO
NATIONAL TREATMENT STANDARDS TO ASSURE QUALITY CARE Forty
million Americans ages 12 and older have addiction involving
nicotine, alcohol or other drugs, a disease affecting more
Americans than heart conditions, diabetes or cancer according to
a five-year national study released today by The National Center
on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University (CASA*
Columbia). Another 80 million people are risky substance users -
using tobacco, alcohol and other drugs in ways that threaten
health and safety. The report, Addiction Medicine: Closing the
Gap between Science and Practice, reveals that while about 7 in
10 people with diseases like