May 19, 2012

What Impulse? Dissenting Opinions On The Latest “Smoking Gun” In The Disease Debate

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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.

Conceptual Confusion In Modern Neuroscience

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Consider these important philosophical questions in the brain disease of addiction debate: Do brains use substances, or do people use substances? Does the brain walk down to the store, buy a drink, open it, and drink it – or does a person do all of that? Does a brain seek pleasure – or does a person?

The Stolen Concept Of Neuroplasticity In The Brain Disease Model Of Addiction

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The brain-disease model of addiction destroys itself because it denies the very concept of neuroplasticity on which it is simultaneously built. Drug addiction is not a brain disease, it’s a choice. Learn how the brain disease argument uses the fallacy of the stolen-concept.

New Brain Scan Reveals Nothing At All

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This is a humor piece from NewsBiscuit about Brain Scans.