How The Today Show and Ronan Farrow Kept Me from Telling the Truth About Addiction
June 8, 2017
Source: Vice on-line magazine I have described how liberals are the most ardent supporters of the disease theory of addiction. (Disclosure, I am a liberal.) This truth was driven home for me by my recent humiliation on The Today Show at the hands of Ronan Farrow. Farrow presented three related woman who had each […]
My Impact on the Addiction World: An Exchange With My Bartender
May 30, 2017
My Impact on the Addiction World: An Exchange With My Bartender On viewing the video of The Today Show’s treatment of addiction, with a few seconds from me as the only opponent of the disease theory, my bartender (and friend) emailed me: Great shot of the apartment! (He helped me move.) Two main questions come […]
The New Recovery
April 5, 2017
Recovery is about purpose and meaning in life, not “sobriety” and meetings. We have been sold a bill of goods by Big Recovery—AA, 12-step rehab, Hollywood, even public health. This is the strange myth that people enter “recovery” when they become sober—that is, they cease using this or that substance, or perhaps all substances. Let’s […]
Anyone Can Escape Addiction—But Fatalistic Views of Biology or Trauma Persuade People Otherwise
October 25, 2016
Earlier this year, Maia Szalavitz, my fellow Influence columnist and an old comrade-in-arms, released her masterful book,Unbroken Brain, one that displays skills I only wish I had, and that I try to emulate. In it, she’s kind enough to praise my own Love and Addiction (1975, with Archie Brodsky), as “groundbreaking.” I’ll add my voice […]
Seven Things We Must Understand About Addiction to Undo the Mistakes of the Past 40 Years
October 2, 2016
When Archie Brodsky and I were writing Love and Addiction in the early 1970s, a medical resident told us, “Oh, we’ve established what addiction was long ago.” It turns out, that wasn’t true. In 2013, DSM-5, the most recent edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s diagnostic manual, redefined addiction to include gambling—American psychiatry’s first official […]
Addiction Is Always There – How To Keep From Drowning In It
August 22, 2016
We are recognizing that addiction is a regular part of life, and it scares the hell out of us. When I published Love and Addiction with Archie Brodsky in 1975, we received catcalls from my fellow faculty members at the Harvard Business School: “Right, love can be addictive—har! har! har!” That idea is now part […]
Chronic Brain Disease and Addiction
July 16, 2016
Abstract The world, led by the United States, is hell bent on establishing the absence of choice in addiction, as expressed by the defining statement that addiction is a “chronic relapsingbrain disease” (my emphasis). The figure most associated with this model, the director of the American National Institute on Drug Abuse, Nora Volkow, claims that […]
People Conquer Addiction With Their Minds
March 18, 2016
Americans are dead set on finding a magic-bullet solution for thier addictions. Experts in the field, including pharmacologists, neuroscientists, psychiatrists, and psychotherapists—adding their voices to the 12-step movement—are all clamoring to be recognized as the true messiahs leading us to this promised land. But the new magic bullets are no better than the old AA […]
All Treatment: Best Blogs of 2012!
December 13, 2012
Stanton was awarded the best Academic Blog by All Treatment. Read more here.
Podcast Tonight (10/29/12)
October 28, 2012
Stanton is speaking about overcoming addiction on podcast tonight, 10 PM Eastern http://www.blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon/2012/10/29/advice-goddess-radio-amy-alkon
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