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10 Guiding Principles for Maturity and “Natural Recovery”
The idea of addiction as inevitably a lifetime burden is a myth. In fact, most people resolve addictions over time and most do so without professional or support-group help. We know this because the American government’s own data tells...
read moreHarm Reduction in Policing and Addiction
Harm Reduction is the elimination of worst-case scenarios with drugs and alcohol. Can the same concept apply to policing? The Life Process Program utilizes harm reduction techniques in addictions. These involve cases where people are not abstaining completely from...
read morePete Davidson’s Path to Recovery: Work, Collaboration, Responsibility
Pete Davidson is an American phenomenon. The youngest cast member ever to appear on Saturday Night Live, at age 20, now 26, he stars in and wrote the forthcoming movie, The King of Staten Island, directed by Judd Apatow...
read moreThe Future Is Now – Tackling addiction amidst the pandemic with LPP
We are in the midst of a disastrous mental health and addiction epidemic, in which the U.S. is at the bottom of the world heap. (See the 2019 World Happiness Report chapter, “Addiction and Unhappiness in America.”) This plummeting...
read moreCompeting Motivations: social engagement versus social distancing
If, as Johan Harri said, the opposite of addiction is connection, what do we do in a pandemic when the safest thing to do is actually avoid each other? These are unprecedented and challenging circumstances. I don’t need to...
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