But background checks and assault rifle bans will not free us from our most debilitating shackle, and that is our numbness, if not addiction, to violence, particularly in film.
Being overweight is not an addiction - it didn't exist 50 years ago.
Prof Griffiths said he heard from many parents who were worried about their children's gaming habits but often it was not an addiction.
The report does little to change the basic assessment of America's war on drugs: that it has curbed casual abuse, but not serious addiction.
There has been much debate, even a few lawsuits, regarding whether or not sex addiction or Internet addiction falls under the category of a disability or a serious illness.
Previously, smoking was considered a choice, not an addiction.
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Although in my experience benzodiazepines do not have the addiction potential of something like opiate pain pills, they can cause significant trouble when abused.
Not just metaphoric addiction, but also literal alcoholism and drug abuse.
Obesity, Katz argues, is not so different than any other addiction, and giving children fatty foods is not so different from giving them cigarettes or drugs.
Research into the neuroscience of sex addiction has not been conclusive, the Mayo Clinic said.
However, the complex policy issues concerning drug use and the disease of addiction do not lend themselves to such simple solutions.
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The answer to addiction is not a demand for self sufficiency, it is the personal support on the hard road to recovery.
Science has shown that drug addiction is not a moral failing but rather a disease of the brain that can be prevented and treated.
On the one hand, technology addiction is not listed in the American Psychiatric Association's manual of disorders, and thus any treatment is not covered by health insurance.
The question is, Are we prepared right now to be the greatest generation, the one that breaks our addiction, not just to foreign oil but to foreign dictators?
"There will be an increase in the drug trade and the people that fall into addiction will not, unfortunately, access treatment, " Claudio Izaguirre, director of the Argentine Anti-drugs Association told Reuters.
"He was practicing, he was fasting, and yet he wasn't physically in the condition to do this, and he was not confronting his drug addiction, which is the big problem, " Chopra said.
If writing candidly about his own poverty and addiction were not enough, he vlogged his path to sobriety, including the night he decided to start and the day he reached two years sober.
Since I am not an expert on addiction or the impact of drug addiction on pregnancy, I thought it would be best to bring in my fellow CNNHealth contributors to help answer this question in three parts.
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Recently I have wrote a lot about my mental state and not much about my addiction issue's but the simple truth is I don't know which came first anymore in my early teens I was having mental problems.
Some of the world's most repressive regimes do not own up to their addiction to imprisonment (does anyone really believe that Cuba imprisons only five in every 1, 000 of its citizens?).
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So long as there are fanboys roaming the streets (and electronics aisles), weird fetishes and unashamed overkill will still have their places, but it's not too often that a gaming addiction finds a home on Broadway.
"The thing about the really cheap prices, being able to decide on the day whether you went or not, is that it creates an addiction, " he says.
The biggest problem for this generation and the next generation is for the U.S. to break the addiction to foreign oil and not destroy the planet with hydrocarbons.
This "hurt" included missing his son Charlie's first birthday in February in order to complete 45 days of therapy for a condition he would not specify, believed to be sex addiction.
And so listening to the song and knowing about that back history, you realized how much more poignant it is, in terms of her speaking, not just this sort of abuse and addiction, you know, as a social problem, but she's really speaking from her own experience as well.
But indulging in capsaicin does not quite meet the formal medical definitions of addiction.
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