Pre-Conditions for the Growth of Addiction In 2025, 48.4 million Americans aged 12 and older, or 16.8% of this population, had a substance use disorder, with 28.2 million reporting a drug use disorder in the past year. Opioid-related overdoses remain a leading cause of death, though national figures dropped from over 110,000 in 2023 to […]
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Pre-Conditions for the Growth of Addiction The United States faces a significant drug addiction crisis, notably involving opioids, marijuana, and other substances. In 2023, over 107,000 drug overdose deaths were recorded nationally, with synthetic opioids like fentanyl accounting for approximately 69% of these fatalities. Marijuana use remains at historic highs among adults, while opioid addiction
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0 Comment Mental health professionals continue to notice that young adults increasingly have difficulty transitioning into adulthood. They struggle with more emotional adjustment issues than ever before. These issues show up as a lower tolerance for stress and under-developed coping skills, during a time in their lives when these skills are most needed. Without these
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0 Comment People often lump lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning and intersex individuals into one group, referring to this population as the LGBTQI Community. Bisexual individuals constitute an important group within this larger community whose specific concerns often remain hidden or ignored. A majority of sexuality and mental health research combines people that identify as
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0 Comment The period after high school through the late 20s is now considered a unique developmental phase, Emerging Adulthood. For Emerging Adults life is typically filled with an unprecedented amount of change and a time for asking many deeply-personal life questions. Robin Marantz Henig discusses some of these changes in her New York Times
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