Reddit mentions of When Religion Is an Addiction

As in the Dover, PA federal court trial the tactic of misrepresenting another theory does not provide evidence your theory is true.

You are though proving it's a good time for these public service messages:

https://psmag.com/news/the-god-drug-when-religion-becomes-an-addiction

https://www.recoveryplace.com/blog/5-signs-you-may-be-addicted-to-religion/

https://www.promisesbehavioralhealth.com/behavioral-process-addictions/can-religion-be-an-addiction/

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/addicted-brains/201505/religion-and-addiction-void-fillers

https://www.amazon.com/When-Religion-Addiction-Robert-Minor/dp/0970958129

• When Religion is an Addiction - Robert M. Minor PhD
  
• Various books and studies headed by John Bradshaw, another PhD clinical psychologist (clinical means that he's more interested in large sample, multi generational testing testing and statistical analysis vs individual 'therapy') who once a member of the clergy.
  
• A study showing that Religious Observance can have a late onset shrinking effect of the Hippocampus. We also know that the Hippocampus is strongly connected to the process of chemical addiction in the brain.
  
  It's really not a long bow to draw either. Most forms of addiction involve a substantive element of ritual. Ritual is how we train our brains to make the neuronal connections which remind us how we can easily remember and repeat the things we need to and want to repeat. Religion also has a very strong and significant element of ritual too and almost every form of addiction breaking context recommends that we break the rituals to aid in fighting the addiction.