Stanton Peele: Government Says You Can't Overcome Addiction, Contrary to What Government Research Shows


The American Board of Addiction Medicine and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) believe that people never overcome addiction. Yet, people recover from addiction all the time. How do we know? Stanton Peele points to government research conducted by the NIDA and its sister agency (with which it is soon to be combined) the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism that tells us just that.
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