According to the U.S. News and World Report, Americans are so keenly aware of alcohol and drug addiction problems they willing to pay a new sin tax or add $2 a month to their health insureance premiums to expand treatment according to a recent poll.

"Majorities of all segments support a number of ways to pay for expanding treatment, including paersonally paying more for health insureance premiums," says a memo from Democratic pollster Celinda Lake's Lake Research Partners.

Her poll was done for Closing the Addiction Treatment Gap, a program of the Open Society Institue, founded by donor George Soros.