February 23, 2012

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Sleazy Tactics Used To Full Dramatic Effect in Kevin McCauley’s ‘Pleasure Unwoven’: The Choice Argument

Pleasure Unwoven is a slickly scripted and produced educational DVD presumably marketed to rehabs.  I can picture a room full of rehab patients being forced to watch it right now – but hey, it’s probably better than watching videos of that priest with a chalkboard from Hazelden.  I’ve digressed though – the website for Pleasure [...]

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Logical Fallacies In The Addiction Debate: #7 Appeal To Tradition and #8 Appeal To Common Practice

Traditions and common practices can be persuasive, but popularity of a given practice or view simply doesn’t prove it to be correct.

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What Impulse? Dissenting Opinions On The Latest “Smoking Gun” In The Disease Debate

The latest addiction research is focused on the wrong thing – impulse control – the art of changing an addiction is not a process resisting impulses, it’s a process of doing away with such impulses.

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Critique of Drugs, Brains, and Behavior or, How The NIDA Is Wasting Our Time And Money to Spread Harmful Lies

A reader who disagrees with my views recently posted a link and told me it was “required reading”.  The link goes to a page titled “Drugs and the Brain” from the NIDA pamphlet (National Institute on Drug Abuse & Addiction) titled “Drugs, Brains, and Behavior – The Science of Addiction”.  What follows is my critique [...]

Natural Recovery From Heroin Addiction

If you haven’t heard of Natural Recovery, it is the “phenomenon” where substance abusers stop abusing substances without having received any sort of treatment or 12 step group attendance.  Natural Recovery is also known as Self Change, Self Recovery, Spontaneous Remission, Auto-Remission, and other names. There is a lot of peer reviewed research on natural [...]

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Addiction is NOT a Brain Disease, It is a Choice

They're screaming it from the rooftops: "addiction is a disease, and you can't stop it without medical treatment"!  But why are they screaming it so loud, why are they browbeating us about it, why is it always mentioned … [Read More...]

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Battery Acid: Alec Baldwin’s “Gaming Addiction” and Other Nonsense

Alec Baldwin has been labeled an addict for an altercation over cell phone use on a plane. This case makes it clear that addiction hysteria is all about judgment. The so-called mental illnesses of hoarding, Facebook addiction, texting addiction, gaming addiction, and substance addictions are not real illnesses – they are simply behaviors unapproved of by others.

A&E Intervention Alum Commits Suicide

Dillon had a professional intervention, went to rehab, and learned that he was powerless over his addiction. Also, he eventually killed himself. I think these facts are related.