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Like its sibling, stress is an economic, medical and social problem of epidemic proportion and is making us emotionally depleted, physically sick, and, incidentally, fatter.
FORBES: This Holiday Season, Stress is the New Fat
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Is it a social network suicide epidemic?
FORBES: The hows and whys of virtual suicide
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Now to turn the tide on this epidemic, we must confront the complex social and environmental conditions that help fuel the HIV epidemic in African-American communities.
WHITEHOUSE: Office of National AIDS Policy Blog
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South Florida presents a challenging social environment where financial scamming is epidemic and many of the wealthy have histories of, shall we say questionable dealings.
FORBES: Hedge Funds Migrate, Dominate South Florida Country Clubs
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When looking at how all of us can maintain and strengthen our engagement in the AIDS response, I am fully committed that UNESCO will continue to address the social and structural factors that fuel the epidemic, including gender inequality and stigma and discrimination, and to empower young people to make healthy, informed decisions.
UNESCO: World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP)
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Yet all this is threatened by an epidemic which threatens to destroy the social and business structure of the country.
BBC: Sunday 23/01/2000 BBC 2 19.30hrs
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Realistically, the epidemic will persist until and unless these broader social ills are addressed.
FORBES: How private distribution companies can help reduce diarrheal disease
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First and foremost, you have a national obesity epidemic that is cutting across all geographies and social economic lines.
FORBES: Scott Dickey on the Business of Endurance Sports
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He notes that the intensifying of modern urban violence not to mention street crime and social misery can be traced to the crack epidemic unleashed on American cities in the late 1980s when cocaine arrived in a cheap and hyper-potent form.
WSJ: Book Review: Don't Shoot
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There are those -- social psychologist Stanton Peele is one -- who believe that addiction has become an epidemic of modern society.
CNN: The price of our oil addiction