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Anyone Can Escape Addiction—But Fatalistic Views of Biology or Trauma Persuade People Otherwise
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...
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Seven Things We Must Understand About Addiction to Undo the Mistakes of the Past 40 Years
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...
read moreAddiction Is Always There – How To Keep From Drowning In It
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...
read moreChronic Brain Disease and Addiction
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...
read morePeople Conquer Addiction With Their Minds
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...
read morePodcast Tonight (10/29/12)
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
read moreThe Deluded World of Addiction Experts
Following are five key ways in which addiction experts demonstrate this detachment from the most self-evident truths about addiction, and what causes their addiction delusions. I. Most People Get Over Addiction. I have driven home the points revealed by the NIAAA’s...
read moreThe Meaning of Addiction Has Changed — Addiction is Not a Characteristic of Things
Writing as editor of MedPage Today, the redoubtable George Lundberg* confidently (and briefly) declared: “All drugs are habit-forming, but only a subset of psychoactive drugs can produce psychological and physical dependence, tolerance, and withdrawal symptoms when taken away, the usual...
read moreHow Our Leading Science Journals Perpetuate a Model of Addiction Already, Repeatedly Shown to be Ungrounded, Baseless, and Harmful in Its Effects
Jonah Lehrer’s imaginative, stylized, baseless view of neuroscience and its relationship to creativity and other cognitive functions was welcomed in seminal science blogs for Wired and The New Yorker, but also at the world’s leading scientific journal, Nature, because it corresponds with their...
read morePolitics in the Diagnosis of Addiction
The New York Times’ Ian Urbina — who was previously known for his work on fracking — has cast his eye on the politics and economics of the redefinition of addiction currently taking place in the revision of the psychiatric “bible,” the Diagnostic and...
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