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America’s BEST Addiction Treatment Centers 2022

RUG AND ALCOHOL ADDIC-tion are responsible for an enormous amount of suffering and death in the United States. According to the Centers for Disease Control’s National Center for Health Statistics, there were an estimated 106,622 drug overdose deaths in the U.S. last year, an increase of about 15 percent over 2020. Meanwhile, the CDC has estimated that alcohol-induced deaths rose to more than 52,000 in 2021, an increase of 34 percent. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 21 million Americans are drug or alcohol addicts.

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