blogs.psychcentral.com – By Jeff Zacharias, LCSW, CAADC, BRI-I
It is estimated that 30 percent of the LGBT population struggles with some form of addiction whether drugs, alcohol, sex or gambling. Contrast that figure with the estimate that approximately 9 percent of the general population is impacted by addiction and it’s not hard to see that addiction is epidemic in the LGBT community. Nowhere is this more prevalent that in the transgender community where rates of addiction tend to be even higher…