{West Virginia}...A report released Wednesday by the West Virginia Prevention Resource Center says drug and alcohol abuse has cost West Virginia's criminal justice system an extra $50 million since 2009 and estimates the financial impact of substance abuse at nearly $430 million in 2010. It projects those costs could soar to $695 million by 2017. Author Yetty Shobo says more than half of prosecutors, public defenders, parole board to the Division of Corrections and the Regional Jail Authority budgets go toward crimes that are related to substance abuse.
