Videos about recovery have amassed millions of views on the video-sharing app.
It can be difficult to access formal treatment, so some are turning to TikTok as a substitute.
Its no secret that TikTok is huge, and hugely popular.
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Some people are evenself-diagnosing through TikTok.
And among the many and varied TikTok trends centered around mental health are videos about substance use disorder recovery.
Over one in ten related to recurrence of substance use.
Why Are People Turning to TikTok In Place of Treatment?
For a lot of people living with a substance use disorder, it can bedifficult to receive formal treatmentservices.
They might have a fear that hospitals, social services, or even the police, might be involved.
Its also only been relatively recently that substance use disorders have begun tobe treatedas part of mainstream healthcare too.
Why is TikTok So Appealing?
As a result, some people have started looking elsewhereincluding on social media.
They can connect, albeit virtually, to other people in the same position.
Social media platforms have often come under fire for their relationship to mental health content.
Nippoda adds, It is important for people with substance use disorder to have willpower.
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