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Alcohol and Drug Addiction

Sex Addiction

Pornography Addiction

Kevin Chadbourne Downs

LAC-S, LAC, LPC-S, LPC, MAC, SAP, CSAT, CAI

• Drug addiction, similar to alcohol addiction, is characterized by unsuccessful attempts to control drug usage and an obsession to take more. 

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• On average, 130 Americans die every day from an opioid related overdose.

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• In 2017, 47,000 Americans died from prescription pill/opioid overdoses.

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• New heroin users have decreased since 2016, while the number of new opioid users has increased significantly.

• Alcohol addiction is a deadly, chronic disease characterized by out of control drinking, combined with a constant obsession for alcohol.

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• 1 in 8 American adults, or 12.7% of U.S. population, meet the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for alcohol use disorder.

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• 25% of adult men that drank in the last month - “Binge” drank - at least 5 times (8+ drinks).

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• Alcohol abusers are at extremely high risk for suicide, depression, incarceration, DUI’s, sexual crimes, and STD’s.​

• Sex addiction is the behavior of "sexually acting out." This behavior may include prostitutes, escorts, multiple sex partners, and/or extramarital affairs.

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• Porn addiction, separate from sex addiction, is the compulsive/ impulsive, need to view pornography and engage in contemporaneous masturbation.​

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• In 2019, the pornography website -  "Pornhub" - reported receiving over 42 billion annual website visits, or an average of 115 million visits per day.

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• Sex and porn addictions are examples of "process addictions" - which are under consideration for inclusion - in the next iteration of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders (DSM).