The central claim of Alcoholics Anonymous and addiction / alcoholism treatment providers is the idea that “alcoholics” literally can’t control whether they drink or how much they drink. Some differ on the matter of whether alcoholics can even choose to have the “first drink” or not, but most seem to agree that once the alcohol… Continue reading Do Alcoholics Lose Control? The Results of Priming Dose Experiments Say NO
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Dual Diagnosis: Reality, or Fraud?
People go to a lot of trouble to get insurance companies to cover expensive addiction treatments for their loved ones – and so do the doctors and other staff offering treatment. A recent article on nj.com covered this phenomenon well, and in fact they might’ve covered it too well for their purposes. The headline reads:… Continue reading Dual Diagnosis: Reality, or Fraud?
Pleasure Center Lobotomy: The Logical Extreme of The Brain Disease Model of Addiction
You’ve heard that the brain is hijacked by the disease of addiction, right? Then you’ve also heard that it’s because of the great surges of dopamine that drugs and alcohol provide to the “pleasure center” of the brain, right? Ok. So let’s just remove that dopamine-craving pleasure center of the brain, and voila! – no… Continue reading Pleasure Center Lobotomy: The Logical Extreme of The Brain Disease Model of Addiction
Money, Drugs, and Triggers
It’s amazing witnessing the lengths that addiction researchers and theorists will go to in order to avoid stating what’s so painfully obvious to any sane person. As an example, I present to you this passage from a popular manual on “relapse prevention”: Substance cues include not only the drugs themselves, but also associated cues and… Continue reading Money, Drugs, and Triggers
Dopamine Madness Approaches Critical Mass: The Addiction Myth May Crumble!
There is a point we will hit where by following the logic of the brain disease model of addiction, it will begin to appear that literally everything we do is a brain disease – and thus it will become painfully obvious to most people that none of it should be considered a disease. The reason… Continue reading Dopamine Madness Approaches Critical Mass: The Addiction Myth May Crumble!
Neuroscientist’s Comments Cut Down The Brain Disease Model of Addiction
Neuroscientist Marc Lewis makes comments that help to debunk the brain disease model of addiction.
Clean Slate Answers: Can An “Addict” Ever Become A Moderate User?
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.
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
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.
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.