“Addiction is nondiscriminatory. It doesn’t care about your religion”
Being Jewish is not merely subscribing to a religion. We are, in the words of the kuzari, a different beriah, a different level of creation above “medaber.”
A jew doesn’t have the same problems or the same mentality as anyone else. Of course yidden can get addicted, but the way you’re describing it is, i hate to use the word again because it makes me sound “extreme,” close to apikorsus.
I do agree that brushing problems under the rug was unsuccessful. The community is acknowledging the issues much more than it used to, but the truth remains that for the overwhelming majority, our community is spared the evils of the secular world. It’s mainly among those who leave the haven of the Yeshiva, etc..who fall prey to such things.