America has a drinking problem
When we are no longer restricted by resource limits as a society, <i>everything</i> quickly becomes an addiction. Food, alcohol, cigarettes, caffeine, sex, drugs, gambling, shopping, TV, video games, social media. I&#x27;m sure people a lot more qualified than me will be able to talk about it in scientific terms, but I feel like a certain category of species (maybe all of them?) simply never ran into limiting excesses as part of their evolution. There are animals that will literally eat themselves to death if given the chance.