Stanton Peele 
Coercion Into Addiction Treatment Is Ubiquitous: Five Ways It Happens
The range and intensity of coercion in addiction treatment isn’t well recognized. Yet coercion ...
Yes, You Can Be Addicted to Cannabis—But There Are Sensible Ways to Avoid This
The seemingly inexorable nationwide movement to legalize marijuana has recently stalled in New Jersey ...
Intoxication Has Always Been the American Way—Let’s Work With That
Mood modification through drugs—intoxication—is a standard cultural reality in American history, but possibly even ...
“Russian Doll” Is a Case Study of Existential Recovery
Russian Doll, the acclaimed Netflix comedy-drama built around Natasha Lyonne, tackles loss, trauma, self-destruction ...
What a Breakthrough E-Cigarette Study Illustrates About Addiction
The first large, systematic study of whether e-cigarettes help people to quit smoking was ...
The Reassuringly Normal Recovery of Lindsay Lohan
Remember when Lohan was portrayed as the incorrigible bad-girl alcoholic who would never change—i.e., ...
How a Famous IQ Study Revealed a Key Truth About Avoiding Addiction
What makes you live longer? What makes life more satisfying? What enables people to ...
Kavanaugh and the Paradox of Outgrowing Alcoholic Identity, But Not Moral Culpability
At this point, we don’t need to introduce Brett Kavanaugh, the Supreme Court nominee ...
Five Harmful Anti-Alcohol Myths and the Evidence Against Them
In Temperance America and beyond, it seems no amount of evidence will be accepted ...
In 2018, the Temperance Movement Still Grips America
Our society—even some of its most progressive elements—vilifies alcohol. This stands in opposition to ...
