iPhone app iPad app Android phone app Android tablet app

Addictive Disorders

We Need a Conceptual Breakthrough in the War on Drugs

Stanton Peele | Posted 01.06.2013 | Politics
Read More: National Institute on Drug Abuse, Drug Addiction, Addictive Disorders, Obama War on Drugs, Addiction and Recovery, Honduras Drug War, Alcohol Addiction, Drugs, Drug War, War on Drugs, Drug Policy, Politics News
Stanton Peele

Among the misconceptions fostered by AA and the disease theory of addiction is the idea of "hitting bottom" -- that there is some objective state beneath which no human being will go. The same is true in our misconceptions about what will end our war on drugs.

Read Whole Story

Addiction: Bad Behavior Or Biologically-Based Disorder?

John J. Mariani, M.D. | Posted 11.10.2012 | Healthy Living
Read More: Addiction Treatment, Addictive Disorders, Addiction Research, Addiction & Recovery, Substance Use Disorders, Addiction Disorders, Addiction Treatment Options, Drug Abuse, Substance Abuse, Substance Use Disorder, Substance Abuse Treatment, Healthy Living News
John J. Mariani, M.D.

Most people in the United States sample alcohol and other addictive substances at some point during their lifetime. What separates the people who go on to develop addiction from those who don't are a series of variables that were not in their control.

Read Whole Story

How The Meaning Of Addiction Is Shifting As We Speak

Stanton Peele | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Addiction, Addiction & Recovery, Gambling Addiction, Addictive Disorders, Stanton Peele, Brain Reward Systems, Heroin Addiction, The Meaning of Addiction, Love and Addiction, Smoking Addiction, Marijuana Addiction, Dsm-5, Home News
Stanton Peele

So when is something addictive? It's addictive when we reckon a kind of preoccupation has significant negative effects, either on us as individuals, or on society.

Read Whole Story