Thinking About Addiction

Kids like to bring up the fact that alcohol kills many times more Americans than marijuana (or heroin, or cocaine). So why are those drugs illegal, their use subject to harsh punishment, when alcohol isn’t?

Medication may help, and we shouldn’t automatically rule it out because it’s “taking pills.” Some pills are okay, if we take them under supervision and according to directions.

Calling these diseases “behavioral illnesses” and calling our systems of care “behavioral health programs” promotes two destructive, harmful beliefs.

These powerful drugs have escaped the constraints of legal use and become widely misused

This is the first data-driven study which shows that teacher support is associated with lower levels of early alcohol use.

For these and other common procedures referred to in the study, we might not even know what the doctor prescribes Mom or Dad afterward.

The Norwegian study is part of an ongoing effort to restore the right of researchers to conduct studies involving therapeutic uses of LSD.

“We’re still stuck at the problem of definition. Until we agree on that, I don’t know how we can resolve it.” And not surprisingly, we didn’t.

It’s glib, deceptive, self-serving and futile to address what the CDC has described as an epidemic, by finger-pointing.

"Well, they’re afraid the college will get a rep as anti- drinking,"