Addiction Experts Keep Shaming Us Into Believing The Disease Theory
A few hours after making this post about the Argument From Intimidation, I found this story, A New Treatment For Narcotic Addiction by Lloyd I. Sederer MD, which was published the same day, on the...
View ArticleCritique of Drugs, Brains, and Behavior or, How The NIDA Is Wasting Our Time...
A reader who disagrees with my views recently posted a link and told me it was “required reading”. The link goes to a page titled “Drugs and the Brain” from the NIDA pamphlet (National Institute on...
View ArticleNeuroskeptic: The Acting Brain!
Sometimes I feel alone when I look at the “case” for the brain disease model of addiction and cry “bullshit!”. Can anyone else see how ridiculous this is? Does anyone realize they’re just showing us a...
View ArticleMusic, Addiction, And Imaginary Diseases
If we are to believe the argument that addiction is a disease, then we should also believe that the ability to play improvised jazz, conduct an orchestra, or freestyle rap is a disease. Indeed, if mere...
View ArticleThe Stolen Concept Of Neuroplasticity In The Brain Disease Model Of Addiction
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....
View ArticleAddiction as a Brain Disease is NOT Big News in 2011
ASAM declared addiction a brain disease in August, and it was front page news in a media frenzy - but was there any news worth printing there? The post Addiction as a Brain Disease is NOT Big News in...
View ArticleThus Much More Difficult…
A quick sentence in an average press release type report reveals the problematic message of the recovery culture. The post Thus Much More Difficult… appeared first on The Clean Slate Addiction Site.
View ArticleWhat Impulse? Dissenting Opinions On The Latest “Smoking Gun” In The Disease...
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....
View ArticleClean Slate Answers: Can An “Addict” Ever Become A Moderate User?
A reader asked "Do you think an addict can ever drink normally? Because if it is truly a choice, not a disease, someone who was addicted to any substance should be able to drink "normally" again. The...
View ArticleNeuroscientist’s Comments Cut Down The Brain Disease Model of Addiction
Neuroscientist Marc Lewis makes comments that help to debunk the brain disease model of addiction. The post Neuroscientist’s Comments Cut Down The Brain Disease Model of Addiction appeared first on The...
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