Addiction Information

15/05/2017

What can doctors do to ease emotional pain? The physicians of ancient and medieval times found many plants and plant-derived substances (ie, drugs) that soothed mental as well as physical ills. Rarely did they draw a line between the psychological...

26/07/2016

http://theinfluence.org/i-have-rights-like-any-other-person-how-the-worlds-drug-users-created-something-great-in-durban-last-week/

21/05/2016

My latest piece on the use of Naltrexone for resolving he**in use disorders in the United States: http://theinfluence.org/pushing-naltrexone-as-the-answer-to-our-he**in-problems-is-unscientific-and-unethical/

May 2nd, 2016 Recently the neuroscientist Marc Lewis, a friend of mine, gave Percy Menzies, president of treatment provider Assisted Recovery Centers of America, the chance to guest-post on his blog as part of a series on the “response to the he**in epidemic.” Menzies’s post suggested that naltrexo

31/08/2015

http://www.williamwhitepapers.com/blog/2015/08/addiction-neurobiology-and-personal-destiny.html

19/08/2015

Daily dose: Please could somebody tell me what number 4 and number 5 is?
(OK, so maybe number 4 is a dissociative anaesthetic)

FACT: Opioids, depressants, and stimulants are the top 3 abused prescription drugs. Open 1st link for more info. http://teens.drugabuse.gov/drug-facts/prescription-drugs

14/08/2015

Because of the way they dodge regulation, the rise of legal highs reveals the bare truth about the inevitable failure of global prohibition—and why the only way forward is to regulate psychoactive substance rather than reflexively criminalize them.

24/07/2015

More on Marc's book and an interview: http://www.thefix.com/content/why-addiction-not-disease-according-dr-marc-lewis

A neuroscientist disputes the status quo, calling us all to rethink how we view addiction.

13/07/2015

We all know addiction is a disease. It has been so classified by all the authoritative sources. The American Medical Association labeled alcoholism an “illness” back in 1967. The Centers for Diseas...

10/07/2015

How do your pre perceptions color what you experience? How will they affect what you remember? Adi Jaffe gives an insightful talk about the setbacks of label...

03/07/2015

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marc-lewis/post_9729_b_7715792.html

We don't have to ignore the biology of addiction to appreciate its psychology and to approach those who suffer humanistically rather than moralistically.

28/06/2015

“Addicts aren’t diseased,” Lewis writes, “and they don’t need medical intervention in order to change their lives. What they need is sensitive, intelligent social scaffolding to hold the pieces of their imagined future in place — while they reach toward it.”

I agree with this statement 100%. This does not mean that medical intervention is not ever needed for people who use drugs, but to approach addiction as a disease that requires treatment causes more problems than it solves.

A psychologist and former addict insists that the illness model for addiction is wrong, and dangerously so