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Addiction doesn’t discriminate

By Fran Jeffries | Thursday, September 4, 2008, 10:59 AM

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Addiction does indeed discriminate. That’s according to Sally Satel, a psychiatrist and a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. She wrote in this essay that while anyone can theoretically become an addict, it’s more likely the fate of some, among them women sexually abused as children; truant and aggressive young men, children of addicts; people with diagnosed depression and bipolar illness, and poor people. Do you agree? What do you think?

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