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We’d like the Library to be a one-stop shop for information and resources on addiction, treatment, and recovery. We’ll be building sections for different types of media, topic areas, and audiences, just like a real-world library.

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Taking the Fifth

August 16, 2013 by C. Scott McMillin

Faded drawing of man's head in profile, on old-looking, stained paper. The "brain area" is filled with gears.

It can be intimidating to look over the inventory, and think about sharing these shame-laden items with another real live person.

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Social Networking and Recovery Services

August 7, 2013 by Cecile

Social networking speech is protected, in the United States at least, by the same Constitution that protects other forms of speech.

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Vaillant and the Long Term View of Relapse

August 2, 2013 by C. Scott McMillin

He’s able to describe complex phenomena in terms that, with a little work at least, we can understand.

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Models of Addiction: The Temperance Model

August 1, 2013 by C. Scott McMillin

The idea was that the drinker would admit his sins, beg forgiveness, accept punishment, and promise to abstain from that point on.

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Models of Addiction: The Psychoanalytic Model

July 25, 2013 by C. Scott McMillin

And there’s no reliable way to tell whether addictive personality traits represent a cause or a result of addiction.

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Addiction Treatment: The Double Standard

July 22, 2013 by C. Scott McMillin

Addiction has been described as a chronic problem that we’ve attempted to treat as an acute illness –a big reason for the revolving door of relapse.

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Models of Addiction: The Medical Model

July 15, 2013 by C. Scott McMillin

However necessary — and it is necessary — good acute care will never be enough to solve the problem of addictions.

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Nonbelievers Moral Inventory

July 12, 2013 by C. Scott McMillin

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Non-believers build moral codes without churches, because you don’t need to believe in a god(s) to know the difference between right and wrong.

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Models of Alcoholism and Drug Addiction

July 8, 2013 by C. Scott McMillin

By examining the models through which people view and deal with addiction, we can better understand how our society reacts to its continuing presence.

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Sober Again in Margaritaville

July 3, 2013 by Soberchrystal

Living sober is a very special process. A process that you can easily let yourself get tired of, or one that can lift you higher than any beverage could.

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