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LGBT ADDICTN TREATMENT: GAY REHAB CENTER
Not only is their likelihood of addictn greater, gays, lbians, bisexuals, and transgenrs have different needs pared to straight people terms of addictn treatment. Read on to fd out how a gay rehab center n help. Acrdg to rearch by the Natnal Epimlogil Survey on Alhol and Related Condns-III done on 36, 309 adults sufferg om substance abe, about 6% of them intified as beg homosexual.
The same rearch also showed that lbians and gays were twice as likely to have a severe alhol or tobac e disorr pared to heterosexuals. Acrdg to the 2015 Natnal Survey on Dg Use and Health, 39% of lbians, gays, and bisexuals ed illic dgs pared to 17% of heterosexual adults.
Until 1973, homosexualy was nsired a mental illns rather than a variatn of human sexualy. Not surprisgly, gays, lbians, bisexuals, transgenrs, and queers equently turn to tobac, alhol, and dgs as a pg mechanism. Some of the factors that ntribute to alholism or dg pennce gays and lbians are discsed below.