How Serious Is Chemical Dependency?

• Children of alcoholics have a four times greater risk of developing alcoholism than children of non-alcoholics.
   

• Chemical dependency can lead to serious health problems, including the destruction of both mind and body.
   

• Chemical dependency is involved in about half of all traffic fatalities.
   

• Chemical abuse produces: unhappy marriage relationships, broken homes, impoverished families, deprived or displaced children.
   

• Chemical dependency costs society hundreds of billions of dollars.
   

• Children are born with birth defects because of chemical dependency.
   

• Individuals with chemical dependency problems have higher rates of suicide than the general public.