Rather than over-diagnosing, is psychiatry actually causing the maladies it laments?
Drug addiction is not caused by the effects of drugs alone.
What if we just allowed people to take drugs in a supportive social milieu that clearly signals appropriate behavior?
Fictional dramas aid leading medical historians in misrepresenting what happens when people get hooked on cocaine and other substances.
Sobriety isn't an abstinence fixation; it's about having purpose
The debate about sex addiction reflects a larger cultural confusion.
Prodigious alcohol consumption by Washington and his fellow founding fathers has been whitewashed from American history.
Drugs and alcohol may embody greater social problems that we cannot face up to in themselves.
Heroin epidemic? Cunning disease? Or learned powerlessness?
Why does the National Institute on Drug Abuse contradict its own research?
A book on the "depression" diagnosis takes its critique in the wrong direction.
Behind the relentless, misguided search for a medical cure for addiction.
The alcoholism treatment establishment uses a drunk driving accident to silence dissent.
The latest fight over wine labels is part of the ongoing struggle between wets and drys.
There are signs of a healthy shift away from hostility toward alcohol in the United States.
Under the influence of alcohol-treatment evangelists, courts, employers, and parents are forcing people into 12-step programs for the slightest of reasons.
From emergency surgery to addiction therapy, courts are letting "the experts," rather than parents, decide what treatment to give kids.
The disturbing consequences of treating addiction as a disease-and every bad habit as an addiction.
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