A dramatic piece of addiction research used to prop up the brain disease model of addiction was blown to pieces this year: cue induced craving. You’ve probably seen this “science” portrayed on television over the years. Some very serious looking scientists in a quiet lab full of fancy equipment put a cocaine addict into a… Continue reading Addiction science exposed: recreational cocaine users’ brains are hijacked too!
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Money, Drugs, and Triggers
It’s amazing witnessing the lengths that addiction researchers and theorists will go to in order to avoid stating what’s so painfully obvious to any sane person. As an example, I present to you this passage from a popular manual on “relapse prevention”: Substance cues include not only the drugs themselves, but also associated cues and… Continue reading Money, Drugs, and Triggers