Topic: research

People attend AA for a variety of reasons, in different stages of readiness, and with diverse objectives in mind.

Heroin is certainly an addictive substance, so why didn’t all the subjects continue using it?

“If you can’t measure something, you can’t do science with it, and in addictions, we just can’t measure things as well as we need to.”

Some observers have criticized us for orienting treatment methods to more severe cases, but that’s predominantly who we see in many forms of treatment.

We’re already a society at risk of drowning in sciencey-sounding flapdoodle.

There would presumably be a real advantage to a genetic profile that pinpointed those at special risk for alcoholism

Pundits are always telling us that science proves this or that, but when we look closer, we find it proves neither.

The treatment population is jam-packed with vulnerable people and families desperately looking for magic solutions to a genuinely challenging problem like recovery.

The evidence suggests we do not yet have a Krokodil epidemic. Although the media seems to do its best to help create one.

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