Should tax dollars pay people in recovery to stay sober?
37%
37% supported using tax dollars to pay people recovering from addiction to encourage sobriety.
n = 3,757 US respondents · Fielded October 2021 · Cherry Data Signals
What it means
49% thought incentives should be an outright lump-sum payment, and 83% said a national plan should include professional counseling.
Methodology
- Sample
- 3,757
- Population
- US respondents
- Country
- United States
- Fielded
- October 2021
- Research by
- Cherry Data Signals
- Commissioned by
- Sunrise House (American Addiction Centers)
- Study
- Should Sobriety Be Paid For?
Cite this statistic
Cherry Data Signals (October 2021). "Should tax dollars pay people in recovery to stay sober?" Survey of 3,757 US respondents, United States. https://cherrysignals.com/statistics/should-tax-dollars-pay-people-to-stay-sober
Free to reproduce with attribution to Cherry Data Signals and a link to this page.
This survey was commissioned by Sunrise House (American Addiction Centers). If you feature Sunrise House (American Addiction Centers), please cite Cherry Data Signals as the survey platform.
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