The unit price of a product is basically what the cost of each pound, ounce or gram, square foot or meter, etc., of the product is. In some grocery stores and supermarkets, the unit prices are shown with the total price but this isn't always available, so it's important to know how to work this out for yourself. Ad. 2.
According to CATG, a number of important factors should be considered: Â­ 1 Twenty-three million Americans are currently addicted to alcohol and/or other drugs. 2  Only one in 10 of them (2.6 million) receives the treatment they need. 3  The result: a treatment gap of more than 20 million Americans.
Story at-a-glance 1  +. As many as 1.5 million Americans were chronic heroin users in 2010. 2  Over the past five years, heroin deaths have increased by 45 percent--an increase blamed on rise of addictive prescription drugs such as Vicodin, OxyContin, Percocet, codeine, and Fentora, all of which are opioids. The reason for the resurgence of heroin is in large part due to it being less expensive than its prescription counterparts. 2  Prescription painkillers were responsible for 16,600 deaths in 2010; heroin was involved in about 3,000 deaths.