Life Process Program Blog

We’re pleased to launch the NEW monthly #LPP Podcast that our coaches Zach and Aaron have initiated. Each month, Stanton Peele & Zach Rhoads will tackle & discuss a clinical addiction issue. The first episode deals with this clinical...

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The US agency that deals with substance abuse treatment redefines recovery! Every day Americans are educated over and over again about the meaning of recovery: celebrities tour the country describing their miraculous redemption due to 12-step rehab; columnists instruct...

Alcohol Addiction, Drug Addiction, Food Addiction, Pornography Addiction, Sex Addiction, Gambling Addiction, Love & Relationships, Family Support, Non-12 Steps, Featured

The Life Process Program Blog features several (anonymized) exchanges between Dr Peele and his readers. We wanted to share these experiences to allow readers to learn more about Dr Peele’s thoughts and opinions, but what we didn’t expect to...

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Could I be addicted? I can’t be an alcoholic? I wouldn’t say I’m addicted?  I’m not THAT bad. My doctor prescribed these. I only bet on sports. Everyone watches porn. Do any of those statements feel familiar? It seems...

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 An Analysis of the Theories of Addiction In many cases, addiction theorists have now progressed beyond stereotyped disease conceptions of alcoholism or the idea that narcotics are inherently addictive to anyone who uses them. The two major areas of...

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Diseasing of America: How We Allowed Recovery Zealots and the Treatment Industry to Convince Us We Are Out of Control A popular book explaining the movement in America toward disease theories of behaviors and their negative consequences for law,...

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An Alternative View on the AA and Why 12 Step Programs Don’t Work In their book ‘Resisting 12-Step Coercion – How to Fight Forced Participation in AA, NA or 12-Step Treatment’, renowned addiction expert Dr. Stanton Peele and his...

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The Meaning of Addiction presents an entire non-reductive, experiential model of addiction. It became a major nondisease text, including use at Harvard. Dr. Margaret Bean-Bayog (who surrendered her medical license in a case involving the suicide of a patient...

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I know AA/NA work – I’ve been in 14 treatment centers in my life and all of them use the disease 12 step model 22-year-old struggling with leaving AA Can I argue against AA in my philosophy debate? Will...

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Is moderate drinking after AA a possibility? At the Life Process Program, we believe it is! Read these emails the Life Process Program has received from AA members seeking advice: Dear Stanton: I have been clean and sober in...

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