What are the social consequences of drug addiction?

Poverty/Disease/Jail: Substance abuse and delinquency are strongly correlated and often result in involvement with negative peer groups, as well problems in school and at home.Drug addiction has a dreadfully widespread reach: from dealing with unpredictable and often dangerous addicts at home to the staggering expenses incurred by individuals and societies as a whole.

Many: Loss of individual productivity, disruptions of the family unit causing society to support the family, behavioral consequences to the addicts family , criminal consequences, the least of which are thefts, murders, etc. Most serious is the loss of life from unintended overdoses with multiple other consequences.