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Check out this article in April’s Atlantic magazine
Check out this article in April’s Atlantic magazine – it questions the wisdom of our culture’s reliance on Alcoholics Anonymous and proposes alternatives: The Irrationality…
The Third Wave
It’s harm reduction – the third major model for understanding and treating substance misuse, following the Moral and the Disease models of addiction. In short…
The Real Cause of Addiction
Addiction is not caused by drugs, nor by diseased people. The antecedents are far more complicated and the solution is human connection and fulfilling…
Dying To Be Free: There’s A Treatment For Heroin Addiction That Actually Works. Why Aren’t We Using It?
“It continues to amaze and anger me that the treatment (and the criminal justice-based treatment) systems operate outside of any oversight when it comes to…
The Origins of Addiction: Research from Rat Park
Think addiction is a disease? Think again, and enjoy this cartoon which highlights [Norman Zinberg’s] Drug, Set, Setting model. Please click here.
A Harm Reduction Treatment Model- Part 1
Therapists are often at a loss when their clients present with substance misuse. We have mostly been taught to refer them to a 12-Step based…