What Is the Percentage of People With Addiction?

Question by Shaquille Baren: What is the percentage of people with addiction?
Addiction in general.
It doesn’t have to be exact, just an estimate.

Best answer:

Answer by destiny
This question would be impossible to answer as many people with addictions are in denial so therefore haven’t seeked help so there would not be the statistics to show this!

Answer by Paws
not sure this is a question that can get a full answer. addictions as in drug , booze, gambling are and can have negative outcomes. Take these away and you still have the mind of the addict . 12 step program is my life .changing my thinking and my actions is key. Destiny wrapped it up ( first the addict must ADMIT) many of us think of drugs and booze, but food, shopping, sex, stealing the list goes on and on. I look at addiction as the Thinking Disease .

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