Sentence examples for abuse costing from inspiring English sources

Overall, one in 10 emergency admissions is related to drug and alcohol abuse, costing the NHS £600m a year to treat related conditions, such as liver problems.

Why, really, would small-government conservatives like Senator McCain and the WSJ editorial page want to defend the record of Phoenix and other bad actors -- weak performance at high price, plus evidence of fraud and abuse, costing taxpayers billions each year, and ruining the career prospects and financial futures of our veterans and countless others?

But many are impatient for results and aware that alcohol abuse costs Scotland some £3.6 billion a year.

Cameron will say that alcohol abuse costs A&E services £1bn out of the £2.7bn a year.

Substance abuse costs this country $277 billion per year in medical costs, crime and lost productivity, yet only half of those who seek treatment can get it on demand.

In research published in 2009, Syliva Walby, distinguished professor in sociology at the University of Lancaster, found that domestic violence and abuse cost the UK an estimated £15.7bn in 2008.

They said that she believed that the failure by her "Idol" colleagues to rebut sufficiently insinuations and jokes about her unreliability and possible substance abuse cost her lucrative endorsements.

Alcohol abuse costs the economy and health care system around $2 billion each year, Ms. Coughlan said Sunday, speaking at the opening of a summer school, because "when we get tanked up, we fight, we crash cars, we beat up our spouses and our children, we fall down and we miss days at work".

The Centre for Social Justice - set up by Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith - said drink and drug abuse cost the UK £36bn a year.

Sheen, meanwhile, finds himself curiously in demand for a person whose personal volatility, history of violence toward women and unrepentant substance abuse cost him his job.

Alcohol abuse costs the NHS £3.8bn a year, £145 for each household in the UK - one in three of all A&E admissions are alcohol related, which can rise to 70% on a weekend.