Per Capita, Total Drug Abuse Spending

Per capita substance abuse spending and total spending by state: <pre) State Per capita Total Alabama $277 $1,197,105 Alaska

Monday, January 29th 2001, 12:00 am

By: News On 6

Per capita substance abuse spending and total spending by state:

State Per capita Total

Alabama $277 $1,197,105

Alaska $532 $323,874

Arizona $205 $931,164

Arkansas $206 $518,892

California $340 $10,942,032

Colorado $217 $845,923

Connecticut $267 $873,380

Delaware $500 $367,591

District of Columbia $812 $429,560

Florida $215 $3,152,481

Georgia $210 $1,570,005

Hawaii $368 $437,826

Idaho $196 $237,025

Illinois $239 $2,868,512

Iowa $257 $733,857

Kansas $223 $584,534

Kentucky $245 $956,943

Louisiana $243 $1,058,834

Maryland $253 $1,288,941

Massachusetts $442 $2,701,042

Michigan $282 $2,754,910

Minnesota $433 $2,031,180

Mississippi $178 $486,594

Missouri $254 $1,371,999

Montana $291 $255,818

Nebraska $176 $291,103

Nevada $282 $473,045

New Jersey $252 $2,030,261

New Mexico $271 $467,531

New York $478 $8,673,254

North Dakota $155 $99,078

Ohio $263 $2,951,008

Oklahoma $213 $705,489

Oregon $278 $902,435

Pennsylvania $292 $3,506,309

Puerto Rico $235 $898,916

Rhode Island $303 $299,421

South Carolina $158 $599,339

South Dakota $176 $128,985

Tennessee $173 $931,532

Utah $242 $499,923

Vermont $229 $134,835

Virginia $267 $1,798,374

Washington $269 $1,509,295

West Virginia $187 $338,804

Wisconsin $273 $1,421,566

Wyoming $240 $115,234

State Average $299 $1,563,278

Note: Indiana, Maine, New Hampshire, North Carolina and Texas did not provide complete information for the study and are not included in this list. An estimate of their substance abuse spending is $13.7 billion, which added to the figures from the 47 listed jurisdictions totals $81.3 billion.

Source: National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University.