A Harvard study of 787 recently quit smokers shows that those who use NRT’s such as the patch or nicotine gum have relapse rates identical to those who quit without such aids. Maybe cigarette smoking is about more than just nicotine.
Author: Steven Slate
Steven Slate has personally taught hundreds of people how to change their substance use habits through choice - while avoiding the harmful recovery culture and disease model of addiction.
Logical Fallacies In The Addiction Debate: #4 Appeal To Authority
Certainly, authority figures have been wrong about many important matters throughout the ages. For each controversial claim, we can find experts who offer vastly different conclusions. Therefore, a mere Appeal To Authority shouldn’t be enough to prove or disprove a claim – if you really care about the truth of a matter you need more than that. This fact doesn’t stop people from shouting down others in the addiction debate with nothing more than an Appeal To Authority though!
Logical Fallacies In The Addiction Debate: #3 Appeal To The Consequences Of A Belief
An Appeal To Consequences is often the first and last fallacious argument uttered in any debate about the disease model of addiction. This tactic may be persuasive, but it doesn’t prove anything.
Logical Fallacies In The Addiction Debate: #1 Ad Hominem and #2 Ad Hominem Tu Quoque
It seems impossible to have an honest debate about the nature of addiction and methods for overcoming it. Ad Hominem attacks run rampant in this game. Here we examine this fallacy in action in the great addiction debate.
Harm Reduction Radio Interviews Michelle Dunbar on The St Jude CBE Program
Kenneth Anderson of the HAMS Harm Reduction Network has an interesting Blog Talk Radio show which covers a lot of alternative approaches to addiction. This week, he interviewed Michelle Dunbar, executive director of the Saint Jude Retreats. She discusses some history of the Saint Jude CBE Program, and discusses the research on success rates. You… Continue reading Harm Reduction Radio Interviews Michelle Dunbar on The St Jude CBE Program
The Surprisingly Unfortunate Limitations of CBT
CBT can alternately be empowering and extremely limiting. While it’s built on some true wisdom, it focuses on such a small part of living – our reactions – that it ignores what we can proactively create in our lives by starting at the level of thought.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy’s Big Lesson You Can’t Live Without
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy has become a buzzword in addiction treatment. Learn the most important part of the theory here.
Thus Much More Difficult…
A quick sentence in an average press release type report reveals the problematic message of the recovery culture.
Alec Baldwin’s “Gaming Addiction” and Other Nonsense
Alec Baldwin has been labeled an addict for an altercation over cell phone use on a plane. This case makes it clear that addiction hysteria is all about judgment. The so-called mental illnesses of hoarding, Facebook addiction, texting addiction, gaming addiction, and substance addictions are not real illnesses – they are simply behaviors unapproved of by others.
A&E Intervention Alum Commits Suicide
Dillon had a professional intervention, went to rehab, and learned that he was powerless over his addiction. Also, he eventually killed himself. I think these facts are related.