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Informationen zum Autor STANTON PEELE, a clinician, researcher, and specialist in the field of alcohol and substance abuse, has won the Mark Keller Award from the Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies and the Lindesmith Award from the Drug Policy Foundation. He is the author of the classic Love and Addiction and The Meaning of Addiction. Klappentext There is absolutely no proven scientific evidence supporting the misconception that substance abuse and other addictions are genetically acquired diseases. Shocked? Diseasing of America is a powerful and controversial rebuttal to the "addiction as disease model" that many vested interests-including doctors, counselors, psychologists, treatment centers, and twelve-step programs that specialize in addiction treatment-don't want you to read. Zusammenfassung A Controversial Argument Against the Disease Theory of Addiction There is absolutely no proven scientific evidence supporting the misconception that substance abuse and other addictions are genetically acquired diseases. Inhaltsverzeichnis Why Addiction Is Not a Disease (And Why We Should Care that It NotBe Treated as Such). Alcoholism in America (How We Discovered that Alcohol is Addictiveand that So Many People Are Alcoholics). Who Says what the Truths about Alcoholism Are? Transforming the Addict onto a Role Model, and the Person into anAddict. The Addiction Treatment Industry. What Is Addiction, and How Do People Get It? (Values, Intentions,Self-Restraint, and Environments). How People Quit Addictions, Usually on Their Own. Our Confusion over Law, Morality, and Addiction. How We Lost Control of Our World. Creating a World Worth Living In (Community, Efficacy, and Values).
