Stanton Peele
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New York, NY, United States
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Past articles by Stanton:
What About Shaming People Into Recovery?
Mindfulness and Loving Kindness are Buddhist practices with compelling psychological bases. They argue for the legalization of drugs, harm reduction, and self-empowering treatment. → Read More
Are We Creating Our Own Addiction Surge?
The American Psychiatric Association creates the gold standard for diagnoses of mental disorders in the United States—and worldwide—through its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. DSM-IV was published in 1994. In 2013, DSM-5 was released. As I describe in the March, 2014 issue of Reason, there are several notable peculiarities about the manual. DSM-5 → Read More
Is Addiction a Chronic Brain Disease?
Drug addiction is not caused by the effects of drugs alone. → Read More
Let People Choose Their Own Drug Policies
What if we just allowed people to take drugs in a supportive social milieu that clearly signals appropriate behavior? → Read More
I Learned It by Watching You: How Television Distorts Drug Addiction
Fictional dramas aid leading medical historians in misrepresenting what happens when people get hooked on cocaine and other substances. → Read More
The Hijacking of Sobriety by the Recovery Movement
Before Alcoholics Anonymous hijacked the term, 'sober' simply meant not being intoxicated. → Read More
Addicted to Brain Scans
The debate about sex addiction reflects a larger cultural confusion. → Read More
Why We Have Drug Scares
Drugs and alcohol may embody greater social problems that we cannot face up to in themselves. → Read More
Philip Seymour Hoffman Was Taught To Be Helpless Before Drugs
Heroin epidemic? Cunning disease? Or learned powerlessness? → Read More
Government Says You Can’t Overcome Addiction, Contrary to What Government Research Shows
Why does the National Institute on Drug Abuse contradict its own research? → Read More