Stanton Peele 
Reason to Raise a Glass: The Alcohol-Zero-Tolerance Project Is Doomed
The World Health Organization has declared that there is no safe level of drinking—a ...
So We’re Drinking Our Way Through the Pandemic? It’s What Drugs Are For.
People are drinking (and using marijuana) more during the pandemic. Alarms have predictably been ...
Democrats Platform Arch-Enemy of Syringe Exchange on DNC Opening Night
Former New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman spoke on the opening night of the ...
The Perpetual Pendulum of US Drinking Guidelines
Every five years, the United States produces a set of health recommendations entitled Dietary ...
“The Great” Offers a Window Into a Non-Temperance Way of Being
Netflix is currently screening The Great, a 10-part series portraying the improbable, nay astounding, ...
So Alcoholics Anonymous Is “Proven” to Work After All? Not So Fast
Alcoholics Anonymous and its 12 Steps, with their prescription of abstinence, have dominated America’s ...
Beyond Harm Reduction: Encouraging Positive Drug Use
A traditional anecdote tells of a congressman answering a constituent’s inquiry about his position ...
In Defense of the Concept of Addiction
The term—and concept of—“addiction” is regularly frowned upon or even attacked by people in ...
Disease Model Proponents Are the Climate Change Deniers of Our Field
Our cognitive biases, per Nobel-winner Daniel Kahneman and colleague Amos Tversky, cause us to ...
Joe Biden’s Marijuana Comments Fit All We Know About Him
Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden confirmed on November 16 that ...
