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    The Disease Model of Addiction Reconsidered
    Another reason for clinicians' acceptance of the status quo was that the drug war, for all its excesses, never seriously endangered their ability to prescribe mood-altering drugs. Richard DeGrandpre h…
    Posted on Thu, 06/24/2010 - 03:00
     

    The Disease Model of Addiction Reconsidered
    The NIDA brain disease paradigm: History, resistance and spinoffsBioSocieties (2010) 5, 137-147David T Courtwright?, Department of History, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, Florida, 32224-26…
    Posted on Thu, 06/24/2010 - 03:00
     

    The Disease Model of Addiction Reconsidered
    Pages: ? Back  1 2 3  Next ?  Next: Part 3 and References ? …
    Posted on Thu, 06/24/2010 - 03:00
     

    The Choice Argument video against calling addiction a disease
    Video from kevintmccauley1965 - "The "Choice Argument" is the best argument I've ever heard AGAINST calling addiction a disease."Also see more videos by Dr. Kevin McCauley on his YouTube channel. a…
    Posted on Tue, 05/18/2010 - 03:00
     

    Origins of the Disease Model of Addiction
    By addiction InboxRoger Williams and "deranged cellular metabolism."The idea of addiction as a disease first began to gain a tentative foothold in scientific and government circles in the early 1960s,…
    Posted on Tue, 05/04/2010 - 03:00
     

    Choice and Free Will: Beyond the Disease Model of Addiction
    By Tom ClarkThe causal story behind addiction, backed up by neuroscience, is playing an increasing role in how addicts are portrayed. According to a recent ad campaign designed to build support for tr…
    Posted on Tue, 04/06/2010 - 03:00
     

    From Psychology of Disease to Psychology of Choice
    Addictive or compulsive behavior (whether it's substance use or overeating) is experienced as feeling un-free: a substance user feels compelled or driven to use. Compulsion is experienced as a state o…
    Posted on Wed, 03/31/2010 - 03:00
     

    Face the Facts -- and End the War on Drugs
    By Johann Hari, Columnist, London IndependentThe proponents of the 'war on drugs' are well-intentioned people who believe they are saving people from the nightmare of drug addiction and making the wor…
    Posted on Wed, 11/11/2009 - 03:00
     

    The Disease Model of Addiction
    David Clark, Director of Wired InSome time ago, I wrote a number of articles in my Background Briefing series for Drink and Drugs News that focused on some of the theories of addiction, and some of th…
    Posted on Tue, 06/30/2009 - 03:00
     

    The Limits of Control
    By Leonard Mlodinow, The New York TimesMy mother had always feared domestic animals, but now as a plump neighborhood cat ran up our driveway, she gazed at the feline, and revealed that 70 years ago sh…
    Posted on Fri, 06/19/2009 - 03:00
     

 

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