Tag: addiction
The False Claim That Addiction Is “All About the Dopamine”
It seems today that everyone and their brother knows about the dopamine hypothesis of ...
Drug Courts Don’t Just Force People Into Treatment. They Deny Us, Too.
Standing in the courtroom as I awaited sentencing, the light tapping of the stenographer ...
Teenagers Pathologized by Traditional Addiction Treatment
When Alice* was 12 years old, her mother discovered some diary entries she had ...
Will Colorado Open the Nation’s First Ibogaine Clinic?
A bill approved by lawmakers might see Colorado become the first state in the ...
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 ...
Belladonna and Bad Actors: The Telling History of Addiction Treatment
The roots of today’s stigmatization of people who use drugs—and of paternalistic, exploitative, often ...
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 ...
Managed Alcohol Programs Offer Harm Reduction to Unhoused People
It’s a bitterly cold day in Montreal. The snow is falling in thick, cartoonish ...
