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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

“In Recovery” or “Problem Free”? OASAS Distorts The Data With Manipulative Language

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.

Sports Writers Waiting For Player’s Relapse, and Insulting Real Victims

Baseball player Josh Hamilton was involved in a freak accident which ended in a fan’s death. With a history of addiction, the sports media is concerned Hamilton may relapse over guilt about the incident.

Substance Use, Abuse, and Addiction – Defined.

Learn some more helpful and constructive definitions of substance use, substance abuse, and addiction.

The Clean Slate Guide To Denial

Is denial real? What does it mean? Learn more in this in-depth discussion of denial.

Loaded Words: Recovery

Recovery in the context of addiction implies that a disease is involved, and it denotes a lifelong process, learn how to replace this harmful term and think clearly.

Loaded Words: Addiction

Addiction is a tricky term, if you can stop thinking in this term, you may cease to behave according to it.

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Addiction Is Not A Brain Disease. Logic, neuroscience, epidemiology, and social psychology all demonstrate this.

This site is dedicated to presenting a different view of addiction: That it is all about choice, and that you can permanently change your substance use habits without fear of relapse or a lifetime spent in meetings and treatment.

Some of you might be wondering whether I know about all the scientific proof that addiction is a brain disease. I'm well aware of the scientific facts and their misinterpretation. Here's my critical analysis of the brain disease model of addiction.

This site is not presenting a model of "recovery" because addiction is not a disease from which one can recover. It is freely chosen behavior, which anyone can freely choose to abandon at any point. This is not recovery from a disease, it is a change like any other change in day to day living that people make in their lives.

I am dedicated to presenting information about addiction from a non-disease perspective, so that people can learn how to feel free and in control of their substance use, and be empowered to change it to whatever degree will make them happiest in their lives. "Addiction is a choice" - that is, you can choose whether to hold or dismiss every thought and belief that motivates you to use substances heavily - and thus you can choose whether to continue any pattern of substance use or not - at will.

Reading any particular article on this website will not force you to change. Hopefully though, you will find some information that helps you to believe that change is possible for you - that it is within reach. This is one key ingredient in changing the mindset that fuels "addiction."