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Originally Posted by Ponine
I am not surprised by the stats in the OP. I am saddened by them.
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Not to dial things back to Square One, but I am surprised and dismayed by many of those stats.
Wow, 18 million American Alcoholics is alot. So why is all the political hay made about the (comparatively) paltry 3.6 million who are drug addicts? I'm not for prohibition, which was morally wrong and absolutely unworkable ... but obviously the booze problem is many magnitudes more dangerous than the drug problem.
Ironically (or maybe quite purposely), keeping booze legal and drugs illegal makes sure that the violence associated with both types of substances remains at maximum.
Then ... 18 million alcoholics and .... 16 million sex addicts?!!? Ok, sex addiction probably doesn't wreck lives to the degree that alcohol addiction does ... but if the numbers of sex addicts approaches the astronomical numbers of alcoholics, that's big news that's been swept under the rug.
Last on my dismayed list is that there are only 1.5 times more drug addicts than gambling addicts. Gambling addicts destroy their lives as surely and completely as any meth head ... so again, a problem this large has been swept under the rug.
Follow the money, and you'll see why some addictions get no press, why others are kept criminilized and warriorized, and others are legal to pursue and abuse.
Pfft, 71 million tobacco addicts makes all others pale in comparison.