Addiction treatment, and our entire approach to “addiction” doesn’t help, and it doesn’t “cure addicts”, it only creates more of the symptoms of “addiction” – hopelessness and a sense of powerlessness to change and make different choices. This what I chose to demonstrate when I got the chance to give a TED Talk on addiction.… Continue reading Steven Slate’s TEDx Talk Tahoe City
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Vietnam Heroin Researcher May Have Disagreed With Johann Hari’s Take On The Causes of Addiction
Journalist Johann Hari is peddling a new book on addiction, promising a fresh new take – and yet it may not be all that fresh – and it may not follow from the evidence he cites. Hari is smacking down the disease model of addiction, specifically the one that depends on pharmacology. And for making this… Continue reading Vietnam Heroin Researcher May Have Disagreed With Johann Hari’s Take On The Causes of Addiction