Neuroskeptic: The Acting Brain!
Sometimes I feel alone when I look at the “case” for the brain disease model of addiction and cry “bullshit!”. Can anyone else see how ridiculous this is? Does anyone realize they’re just showing us a...
View ArticleDr Jeffrey Schwartz on OCD and Treating Yourself
I will expand this post in the future to discuss how Dr Schwartz’s ideas are so important to understanding addiction – but for now, trust me, his ideas are important. He is the leading authority on...
View ArticleNew Brain Scan Reveals Nothing At All
This is a humor piece from NewsBiscuit about Brain Scans. The post New Brain Scan Reveals Nothing At All appeared first on The Clean Slate Addiction Site.
View ArticleThe Stolen Concept Of Neuroplasticity In The Brain Disease Model Of Addiction
The brain-disease model of addiction destroys itself because it denies the very concept of neuroplasticity on which it is simultaneously built. Drug addiction is not a brain disease, it's a choice....
View ArticleConceptual Confusion In Modern Neuroscience
Consider these important philosophical questions in the brain disease of addiction debate: Do brains use substances, or do people use substances? Does the brain walk down to the store, buy a drink,...
View ArticleWhat Impulse? Dissenting Opinions On The Latest “Smoking Gun” In The Disease...
The latest addiction research is focused on the wrong thing - impulse control - the art of changing an addiction is not a process resisting impulses, it's a process of doing away with such impulses....
View ArticleDopamine Madness Approaches Critical Mass: The Addiction Myth May Crumble!
There is a point we will hit where by following the logic of the brain disease model of addiction, it will begin to appear that literally everything we do is a brain disease – and thus it will become...
View ArticlePhilosophical Problem with the Brain Disease Model of Addiction:...
the brain disease model of addiction comes from a deterministic philosophy, in which free will doesn't exist. This is logically impossible. The post Philosophical Problem with the Brain Disease Model...
View ArticleHate me all you want, but please read this piece by Dr Carl Hart
Carl Hart Phd is a neuroscientist, drug researcher, and Columbia University professor with 25 years of research under his belt. He wrote a book a few years ago that was fantastic. He discusses some of...
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