Alec Baldwin’s “Gaming Addiction” and Other Nonsense
Alec Baldwin has been labeled an addict for an altercation over cell phone use on a plane. This case makes it clear that addiction hysteria is all about judgment. The so-called mental illnesses of...
View ArticleAdd Video Screens To The List of Brain-Changing Chemicals…
When everything is an addiction, then nothing will be an addiction, and I think we may just get there sooner than we think! Check this story on video screen addiction. The post Add Video Screens To The...
View ArticleWhy Target Pleasure?
“New gene therapy for smoking kills the pleasure of nicotine” – so reads the headline in yesterday’s LA Times. This brings up an issue that remains a huge thorn in the side of the committed disease...
View ArticleNew Prescription Drug Laws Are Either The Worst Or Best Thing Ever!
The drug war is so futile, so destructive, and so depressing at this point that it’s almost not even worth discussing. It’s a whole lot of senseless insanity as I see it, and nobody involved seems to...
View ArticlePleasure Center Lobotomy: The Logical Extreme of The Brain Disease Model of...
You’ve heard that the brain is hijacked by the disease of addiction, right? Then you’ve also heard that it’s because of the great surges of dopamine that drugs and alcohol provide to the “pleasure...
View ArticleIs Brand Loyalty A Brain Disease?
Can you be addicted to a brand? Does your brain cause you to keep buying expensive brand name merchandise? An article titled “Suds For Drugs” in New York Magazine seems to suggest this. The article...
View ArticleAdderall Addiction in the NY Times
A recent article in the New York Times tells the tragic tale of a young man, Richard Fee, who committed suicide after a few years of heavy Adderall use and psychotic episodes which were probably...
View ArticleToronto mayor smoked crack. So what? Does that make him an addict?
Mayor Rob Ford of Toronto has admitted to smoking crack once. Research shows it's wrong to assume he's a crackhead or crack addict - yet these myths persist The post Toronto mayor smoked crack. So...
View ArticleA few ways society can reduce opiate overdoses
With the recent overdose death of beloved actor Philip Seymour Hoffman in the news, this is a good time to discuss the causes of such tragedies. First and foremost, overdoses happen because people use...
View ArticleThe Truth is sooooooo Tasteless – The case of Gabrielle Glaser and the...
Gabrielle Glaser released a big story in The Atlantic this week dissecting AA, and obviously, dissing it as well. The article was well researched and presented a lot of hard facts. As usual, this was...
View ArticleThe Disease Propaganda Never Stops. Or, yes it is being screamed from the...
Commenters to this site claim the disease debate doesn't matter, and some even say that no one is pushing the disease model of addiction. The most basic review of the news shows that the push for the...
View Article21 Things Obama and Macklemore got wrong about addiction
I almost died of a misinformation overdose watching President Obama and rapper Macklemore talk about addiction yesterday. Luckily though, I had some Narcan-for-myths handy: the knowledge I gained from...
View ArticleDeflection in the addiction treatment industry over ethics
Addiction treatment workers complain about unethical behavior in the addiction treatment industry, in a recent New York Times article titled “How Staten Island’s Drug Problem Made It a Target for...
View ArticlePathologizing Partying
To any personal friends reading this, know that I don’t usually do this, but a few years ago I counted how many drinks you all had at a birthday party – and you’re all dangerous binge drinkers! Well, I...
View ArticleEuthanasia for Addiction? A logical choice built on a false premise.
This is a truly sad and disturbing story that sums up why I fight against the myth that addiction is a chronic disease, and that addicts/alcoholics are helplessly out of control. A 41 year old man in...
View ArticleHarvard Addiction Science Professor Admits Treatment is a Form of Coercion
Julie Eldred is a heroin user who violated probation by testing positive for an opioid. She’s contesting the probation violation ruling all the way up to Massachusetts’ State Supreme Court on the...
View ArticleBassist Flea “recovered” from heroin “addiction” without treatment or 12 steps
Flea, the legendary bassist for The Red Hot Chili Peppers, wrote an interesting essay on addiction for Time Magazine. It tells both his own experience of getting over his drug problems without...
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