Jessie had a troubling crack and heroin habit. When she asked her father for help he told her she had the power to change and forbid her to go to Narcotics Anonymous meetings. She’s been clean for 2 years now.
Month: February 2012
Yes, Twelve Step Facilitation is An Evidence Based Treatment.
If Twelve Step Facilitation is an “Evidence Based Treatment”, then such terminology is meaningless. The studies used by SAMHSA to classify TSF as EBT have also shown that the method is no more effective than “no-treatment.”
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… Continue reading Sleazy Tactics Used To Full Dramatic Effect in Kevin McCauley’s ‘Pleasure Unwoven’: The Choice Argument
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.
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.