This is a massively overstated, trendy, technically incorrect thing to say.
No, scrolling on a website is not the same as doing lines of coke in the club bathroom.
Nobody cared about drug addiction until it was politicized. US politicians have a long history of using drug users as scapegoats to win elections to disastrous results. Prohibition, drug war, next are social media bans. The insanity will never end.