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Addiction is not a disease, it is a choice.
Comedian and “recovering addict” Russell Brand recently testified in front of a committee in Parliament about drug policy. If you want to watch it, here’s the full video, his portion goes 29 minutes long, or you can skip it and read my points below: What’s wrong with Russell’s pitch? I’m sure his intentions are nothing [...]
A new study finds that 10% of americans “used to have a problem with drugs or alcohol, but no longer do.” But somehow, this finding gets distorted to support the recovery culture. See how OASAS and Drugfree.org pull the scam and twist the data.
A reader asked “Do you think an addict can ever drink normally? Because if it is truly a choice, not a disease, someone who was addicted to any substance should be able to drink “normally” again. The choice-proponents never touch this subject.” Read on for the answer.
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.
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.”
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 [...]
Traditions and common practices can be persuasive, but popularity of a given practice or view simply doesn’t prove it to be correct.
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.
A study showed that alcoholic men who went to Alcoholics Anonymous became 9 times more likely to subsequently “binge drink” than those who used a cognitive behavioral approach. What’s more, they were also 5 times more likely to binge than a control group who received no help with drinking. The take-home message here is: you’re [...]
Listen to Kenneth Anderson of the HAMS Harm Reduction Network interview Dr David Hanson.
Argumentum Ad Populum An Appeal To The Masses is one of the laziest, weak minded, and philosophically revealing fallacies one can engage in. In short, this is the form of such an argument: Conclusion X is true because everyone (or a majority of people) believes it. That’s all there is to it. It simply [...]
A Harvard study of 787 recently quit smokers shows that those who use NRT’s such as the patch or nicotine gum have relapse rates identical to those who quit without such aids. Maybe cigarette smoking is about more than just nicotine.
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