Kenneth Anderson 
A Daughter’s Life and Death, Seen Through a Harm Reduction Lens
The book Addicted and Convicted: Letters from a Lost Daughter, published in August, tells ...
The False Claim That Addiction Is “All About the Dopamine”
It seems today that everyone and their brother knows about the dopamine hypothesis of ...
Naltrexone for Alcohol Use Disorder: Weighing Up the Sinclair Method
Naltrexone is an opioid antagonist that’s available most commonly as a 50 mg oral ...
Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome After You Quit Alcohol: Is It Real?
Post-acute withdrawal syndrome is a hypothetical condition in which a set of symptoms persist ...
Not All Substance Use Disorders Are Rooted in Trauma
Thanks largely to Gabor Maté, it has become popular to say that addictions are ...
The Story of Aversion Therapy for Alcohol Use Disorder
On June 30, 2022, Schick Shadel Hospital in Burien, Washington, closed its doors for ...
Epigenetics, Trauma and Addiction: What We Do and Don’t Know
Ever since Gabor Maté discussed epigenetics in his book In the Realm of Hungry ...
The History of the “Allergy” Myth of Alcohol Addiction
In 2022, it is still not uncommon to hear people claim that an addiction ...
Rehab Profiteering and Abuse: The Lesson of National Medical Enterprises
It seems like every other day we see a news story about a profiteering ...
How 12-Step Programs Became Embedded in US Hospitals
When I first went through treatment for an alcohol problem back in the 1990s, ...
