Stanton Peele

Stanton Peele, Ph.D., J.D., is an internationally recognized addiction expert and author of a number of books including
7 Tools to Beat Addiction
Resisting 12-Step Coercion
Addiction Proof Your Child
Site: www.peele.net
Articles by this Author
No Pill Can Cure Addiction
- By Stanton Peele
- Published 05/8/2008
- Understanding Addiction
- Unrated
McCain Has Two Standards on Drug Abuse
- By Stanton Peele
- Published 04/15/2008
- Celebrity News
- Unrated
Arizona Sen. John McCain, has admitted that his wife not only illegally
used drugs but walked away from criminal charges. The McCains worked to make Cindy McCain's addiction into a political asset [in 2000] — despite
the fact that she stole the drugs from a charity she directed and used
them while mothering four young children.
End Alcoholism -- Bomb Spain
- By Stanton Peele
- Published 04/7/2008
- Philosophy of addiction
- Unrated
What the hell is the matter with those Europeans? Aren't they
smart enough to realize that drinking at an early age leads to a
lifelong risk of alcoholism? I have the same problem when I try to
explain to Europeans that the war in Iraq is good.
What Does Eliot Spitzer Tell Us about Addiction?
- By Stanton Peele
- Published 03/28/2008
- Celebrity News
- Unrated
Whenever a public figure does something grossly wrong (think Patrick
Kennedy, Mark Foley, Mel Gibson), the standard reaction is for them to
claim they were addicted and to be bundled off to a treatment center.
Lying About Recovery - Barack Obama
- By Stanton Peele
- Published 02/27/2008
- Celebrity News
- Unrated
Accidental Overdose or Suicide?
- By Stanton Peele
- Published 02/21/2008
- Celebrity News
- Unrated
Those who die at an early age seem to have been motivated towards
death. As a result, whether they intentionally took their lives or
not, their deaths represent a kind of suicide – or a lack of sufficient
will to live. They are troubled by external events, or are emotionally
scarred or depressed, or suffer from a combination of these feelings.
Drug Use and the Candidates
- By Stanton Peele
- Published 02/1/2008
- Addiction In The News
- Unrated
Review of AA: Cult or Cure
- By Stanton Peele
- Published 11/8/2007
- AA and other 12 Step Groups
- Unrated
Charles Bufe begins Alcoholics Anonymous: Cult or Cure with a description of a standard AA meeting—dominated by a few people who tell their same, self-serving stories for the umpteenth time, the proceedings unfocussed and unhelpful, the environment filled with smoke and other unhealthy environmental contaminants...
Will American Youth Soon Be Drug Free?
- By Stanton Peele
- Published 10/17/2007
- Helping a child or adolescent
- Unrated
The last (2006) “Monitoring the Future” study of high school students trumpeted, “Teen drug use continues downwards.” This is a reassuring message indeed; perhaps we are nearing our goal of eradicating youthful illicit drug use! But then comes the rest of the title: “particularly among older teens; but use of prescription-type drugs remains high.” Heavens, what does this all mean?!
Resisting 12-step coercion
- By Stanton Peele
- Published 09/26/2007
- What Are Your Recovery Options
- Unrated
Perhaps you are familiar with how U.S. residents are coerced into 12-step groups (such as Alcoholics Anonymous) and into 12-step treatment. Even if you have not fully appreciated the irrationality and enormity of 12-step coercion, you probably have at least an intuitive sense that this coercion is wrong in several ways.




