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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.
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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.
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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).
