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Recent Posts:
- Russell Brand’s Ridiculous Testimony To Parliament About Addiction
- “In Recovery” or “Problem Free”? OASAS Distorts The Data With Manipulative Language
- Clean Slate Answers: Can An “Addict” Ever Become A Moderate User?
- Letters: My Father Wouldn’t Allow Me To Go To Narcotics Anonymous
- Is Twelve Step Facilitation Really An Evidence Based Treatment?
- 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
- What Impulse? Dissenting Opinions On The Latest “Smoking Gun” In The Disease Debate
- Alcoholics Anonymous Leads to Increased Binge Drinking – Brandsma Study
- Dr David Hanson on Alcohol Problems & Solutions
- Logical Fallacies In The Addiction Debate: #5 Appeal To The Masses and #6 The Bandwagon Fallacy
- Harvard Study Shows Nicotine Replacement Therapy, Sadly, Doesn’t Work
- Logical Fallacies In The Addiction Debate: #4 Appeal To Authority
- Logical Fallacies In The Addiction Debate: #3 Appeal To The Consequences Of A Belief
- Logical Fallacies In The Addiction Debate: #1 Ad Hominem and #2 Ad Hominem Tu Quoque
- Harm Reduction Radio Interviews Michelle Dunbar on The St Jude CBE Program
- The Surprisingly Unfortunate Limitations of CBT
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy’s Big Lesson You Can’t Live Without
- Thus Much More Difficult…
- Alec Baldwin’s “Gaming Addiction” and Other Nonsense
- A&E Intervention Alum Commits Suicide
- Columbia Spectator Calls CASA addiction Research “Shoddy” and “Questionable”
- World Series Baseball, Pain Medication, Addiction Falsehoods, And Existential Questions…
- Critique Of Relapse Prevention Therapy Part 1: Fire Drills For Arsonists
- Can a Self Help Book Work To End Addiction?
- Addiction as a Brain Disease is NOT Big News in 2011
- The Danger of The “Patient” Role In Addiction
- The Twisted-Arm Error
- The Clinician’s Illusion In Addiction and Recovery
- Majoring In Dependence, With A Minor In Powerlessness
- Free Crackpipes! Harm Reduction Goes Into Left-field
- The Obligatory Amy Winehouse Post
- A Critic’s View of Drugs, Music, and Creativity
- Truth About Prohibition
- A True Classic: Rat Park Criticizes Addiction Research Methods
- Sports Writers Waiting For Player’s Relapse, and Insulting Real Victims
- Conceptual Confusion In Modern Neuroscience
- Substance Use, Abuse, and Addiction – Defined.
- Public Shaming In The Irish Times
- Surviving Straight Inc, a Controlling Approach To Addiction Treatment Brings Disastrous Consequences
- Clean Slate in The Irish Times
- The Stolen Concept Of Neuroplasticity In The Brain Disease Model Of Addiction
- Average Inpatient Alcohol And Drug Rehab Costs
- The Last Word…
- Martin Seligman on Prospection: Being Motivated by our Vision of The Future
- Moby On Addiction
- Ending Your Desire to Use is a Myth?
- Backwards-Land: The Revelation of “Rewards”
- Can A Former Drinker Go To Bars?
- Poll: Were You Helped By Treatment….
- Some Gems
- What of Needle Exchanges?
- Addiction To Technology Similar To Drug Cravings
- Music, Addiction, And Imaginary Diseases
- Review of a SMART Recovery Meeting
- FriendTheGirl Breaks It Down
- New Broadway Show Paints A Scathing Picture Of AA
- Heyman Resolves The Contradictions In The Common Knowledge Of Addiction
- Top Ten Ways To Stay Addicted
- Fake Success Rates: Retention and Completion
- Peele: Addiction In The Real vs Clinical World
- Musings On The Choice Model
- My Poster-Boy
- Still Genius – Fingarette on the Disease Myth and Learning
- Stop Recovering. Start Living.
- The Clean Slate Guide To Denial
- StressBytes
- New Brain Scan Reveals Nothing At All
- Finally Some Real Reporting: Scientific American On “Curing” Yourself Of Addiction
- Penn & Teller Bullshit: Alcoholics Anonymous
- Living Up To The Hype – Harvard & The Social Network
- Charlie Sheen Confirms That Chuck Lorre Is an AA Member
- Charlie Sheen Turns On The Cult – And Feels The Wrath of Alcoholics Anonymous
- Feelings & Realities
- Comparing Apples to Melons – Four Loko
- The Tragedy of Motivational Interviewing
- Dr Drew Has Two and a Half Brain Cells
- Obesity as a Brain Disease
- Choice and Will Power
- 69.5% of Treatment Revenues Come From Public Funds
- Deconstructor On The Revolution…
- Charlie Sheen Case Reveals The True Character of The Recovery Culture
- AA is Treatment? The Facts, and some tips for dealing with this harsh reality.
- South Park on AA
- A Third of Scottish Addicts Who Die of Overdose Have NOT Received Treatment – That Leaves Two Thirds Who Were Treated and Still Overdosed
- It’s All Twelve-Step – So Stop Talking About Science Already
- Musings On The NESARC Study, Authority, And The St Jude Retreat House
- Homeless Drug Addict Changes Her Life With Positive Attitude – Rejects Life Of “Recovery”
- Addiction Is For Kids
- Dr Jeffrey Schwartz on OCD and Treating Yourself
- Reality Check – Most Don’t Become Addicted
- Intervention is Wrong – Most People Stop Without Help
- No Negative New Years Resolutions
- Todd Bridges Made Bad Choices – And He Owns It!
- No Such Thing As A Former Heroin Addict?
- The Never-Ending Stigma Battle
- Quick Tip: Explore Your Options
- Financial Abuse – Ponzi Schemes In AA 12 Step Groups
- Food Addiction = Drug Addiction, and Vice Versa
- The Differences Between Physical Dependence and Addiction
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