May 19, 2012

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.

The Clean Slate Guide To Denial

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

Loaded Words: Addiction

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

The Disease Theory Argument From Intimidation

In “The Virtue of Selfishness” Ayn Rand brilliantly identified a logical fallacy in wide use today, which she called “The Argument from Intimidation”.  If you don’t wholly support and endorse the disease theory of addiction, then you will undoubtedly be countered often with the Argument from Intimidation.  If you’re aware that the argument isn’t really [...]