Alcohol: A Hidden Epidemic?
By Bill White Posted on William White Papers on October 1, 2020 In my early writings on the history of addiction in the United States, I document the discrepancy between public perception of substance-related...
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The Role of Choice in Addiction and Recovery
By Steve K. In the field of addiction studies there is an ongoing debate in relation to how much voluntary choice is involved in addiction to alcohol and other drugs. During an AA discussion...
Is Substance Use the Treatment or the Disease?
Editor’s Note: Most of us seem to believe that alcoholism is a kind of treatment: an attempt to resolve an underlying trauma or a “spiritual void” and not, initially at any rate, a “disease” of...
