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If you don’t have impactful social relationships, the lure of Facebook can be irresistable. You dive in and get superficial recognition and notice, but there’s no depth. You’re like a popularity hound, always looking in the mirror and concerned with your outward appearance instead of what’s on the inside. You want to be ‘Popular’, like the song from the Broadway Musical ‘Wicked’. \n\nIf you are not socially integrated you are at risk. Most people who are not socially integrated are not addicts, but they are perhaps only one opioid prescription away from becoming an addict. \n\nBut more than this, they are at risk of losing all their money if they step into a casino, or spending too many hours of the day on Facebook, Twitter, or Tumbler, looking for the validation and acceptance they are missing but need in order to feel healthy. \n\nSolutions that work: \n\nAt present, we are attacking addiction by regulating addictive substances. 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If you don’t have impactful social relationships, the lure of Facebook can be irresistable. You dive in and get superficial recognition and notice, but there’s no depth. You’re like a popularity hound, always looking in the mirror and concerned with your outward appearance instead of what’s on the inside. You want to be ‘Popular’, like the song from the Broadway Musical ‘Wicked’. \n\nIf you are not socially integrated you are at risk. Most people who are not socially integrated are not addicts, but they are perhaps only one opioid prescription away from becoming an addict. \n\nBut more than this, they are at risk of losing all their money if they step into a casino, or spending too many hours of the day on Facebook, Twitter, or Tumbler, looking for the validation and acceptance they are missing but need in order to feel healthy. \n\nSolutions that work: \n\nAt present, we are attacking addiction by regulating addictive substances. 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