Musings On The NESARC Study, Authority, And The St Jude Retreat House
See those pretty people in lab coats? That should give you cause to believe me when I say that 75% of people end their addictions on their own without treatment. Learn why this fact is so important....
View ArticleAA is Treatment? The Facts, and some tips for dealing with this harsh reality.
It's impossible for a rational person to recommend that anyone get treatment for an addiction - because nearly every treatment program involves the faith-healing and dogmatic indoctrination into the...
View ArticleColin Farrell and Madchild Mature Out of Addiction – Research Shows This Is...
I was reading two profiles of men in their mid-thirties who recently changed their problematic substance use habits, rapper Madchild, and actor Colin Farrell, and of course it reminded of the theory my...
View ArticleNew Alcoholism Study: Treatment Doesn’t Lower Mortality Rates
A new study concludes that getting treatment for alcoholism will not increase your chances of survival. Here’s why it’s important – we’re told all the time that there’s an epidemic of addiction, and...
View Article75% of “Addicts” are “Recovered” at any given point in time – Most without...
A reader recently commented: I question the validity of your statistic that 3/4 of people with substance abuse problems achieved sobriety without any treatment I know it doesn’t fit with common wisdom,...
View ArticleMental Illnesses Don’t Cause Continued Addiction: NESARC Epidemiological Results
In an analysis of nicotine, cannabis, alcohol, and cocaine users (in which a vast majority were diagnosed with mood and anxiety disorders), the researchers found that: "No association was observed...
View ArticleSteven Slate’s TEDx Talk Tahoe City
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...
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 Article“Real alcoholics” more likely to recover than “heavy drinkers”
Real Alcoholics are more likely to recover than Heavy Drinkers according to data in the government's latest large scale epidemiological study, NESARC-III. The post “Real alcoholics” more likely to...
View ArticleHow many people recover from heroin / opioid addiction?
They say recovery from opioid addiction is impossible, but it’s not. 96% of people have gotten over their opioid addictions historically. Most people would have you believe that nobody ever gets over...
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