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Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 1977

Journal of Gambling Issues, 2001

Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 1982

Promoting Self-Change from Problem Substance Use, 2001

As discussed in Chapter 1, because the vast majority of substance abusers are unlikely to enter t... more As discussed in Chapter 1, because the vast majority of substance abusers are unlikely to enter traditional substance abuse treatment programs there is a serious need to develop and evaluate alternative, minimally intrusive interventions that appeal to individuals with substance use problems. If substance users are unwilling to come into treatment, what can be done to motivate them to change their substance use?

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1990

... as a human passion 'such as smoking, gambling, greediness for profit, sexual excesses, e... more ... as a human passion 'such as smoking, gambling, greediness for profit, sexual excesses, etc ... in 1898; by the 1920s it had become the principal object of addiction control efforts ... What is most important about these political, economic, medical, and public-relations developments is ...

Alcohol and Alcoholism, 1997

Addiction Research, 2000

... Alcohol consumption and all-cause mortality: How does alcohol dependence affect the associati... more ... Alcohol consumption and all-cause mortality: How does alcohol dependence affect the association? Paper presented at the 25th Annual Epidemi-ology Symposium of the Kettil Bruun Society, May 31-June 4, Montreal. Hyman, S. E. (1996). Shaking out the cause of addiction. ...

Addiction, 2002

... practices; religious elements in AA's program and literature; AA's religiou... more ... practices; religious elements in AA's program and literature; AA's religious origins; summary 4. The Courts and Coerced 12-Step ... 5. Informed Consent 130 legal requirements; ethical principles; clinical benefits; remedies; violation of medical principles in addiction treatment 6. A ...

Alcohol and Alcoholism, 2003

... Edited by G. Hussein Rassool. ... The author quotes Dr Vaillant's study over a lifetime ... more ... Edited by G. Hussein Rassool. ... The author quotes Dr Vaillant's study over a lifetime by the age of 60 years, that only 11% of males were controlled drinkers and Dr Vaillant's conclusion that long-term return to controlled drinking was a rare and unstable outcome. ...

International Journal of the Addictions

The current trend toward treating drug and alcohol (and other) addictions in disease-oriented, 12... more The current trend toward treating drug and alcohol (and other) addictions in disease-oriented, 12-step programs has had less success than most people believe. Treatments that teach coping skills, mobilize community forces, and instill values toward prosocial behavior have had success rates far superior to therapies that instruct individuals that they take drugs or drink excessively because they have a disease or because drugs are inherently addictive. Successful treatments instead deal with addicts' interactions with their environments and help them develop beliefs in their self-efficacy. Nonetheless, even addiction treatments which have demonstrated success face limitations in their ability to confront individual intentions and values, community standards, and environmental pressures and opportunities. At the same time, more individuals have quit addictions on their own than have been successfully treated by even the best therapies. Put simply, no therapy will ever be able in i...

Pediatrician, 1987

Our fears about youthful substance abuse and our faith in popular treatments are misdirected. Mos... more Our fears about youthful substance abuse and our faith in popular treatments are misdirected. Most illicit substance use by the young is not pathologic or compulsive. Excessive substance use among the young most often involves alcohol. Youthful substance abusers tend to abuse many substances--therefore an understanding of substance abuse requires an awareness of individual motivation and of the person's social circumstances. Therapy lacking this understanding has proven fruitless. Our best hope for the young--whether or not they have significant histories of substance abuse--lies in engaging the natural processes of maturation, real-world rewards, and the creation of a world worth living in.

This compelling and controversial book challenges the widely accepted belief that alcohol and dru... more This compelling and controversial book challenges the widely accepted belief that alcohol and drug addiction have a genetic or biological basis. The so-called disease theory suggests that a substance or activity can cause the addict to lose control of his behavior. Stanton Peele demonstrates how this notion fails to make sense of scientific observations. Analyzing studies of drug and cigarette addiction, alcoholism, obesity, and other potential compulsions such as running and sex, Peele reveals the surprising frequency of self-cure as part of the evidence. The author finds that compulsive habits and dependency are a way of coping that individuals can reverse as their life circumstances change. This brilliantly argued book is sure to provoke discussion and stimulate new approaches to treatment.

Journal of Studies on Alcohol

Level of consumption does not determine addictive symptomatology. Control policies are based on t... more Level of consumption does not determine addictive symptomatology. Control policies are based on the negative images that societies hold of substances of which they disapprove, and in modern medicotechnological societies these images mainly concern a substance’s addictiveness. Alcohol has had a variety of such images in America historically. Heroin has been portrayed as the epitome of addiction during this century in the United States and Britain, while currently cigarettes and cocaine are objects of active marketing of addictive imagery. The epidemiological basis for these changing images often is unclear. Addictive images reflect changing use patterns and social attitudes as they also cause addiction.

Journal of Drug Issues

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American Journal of Psychiatry, 1986

Journal of studies on alcohol, 1986

The kind of clear-cut model of the genetic sources of alcoholism perceived by the public and pres... more The kind of clear-cut model of the genetic sources of alcoholism perceived by the public and presented in popular tracts does not accurately reflect the state of knowledge in this area. No persuasive genetic mechanism has been proposed to account for accumulated data about alcoholic behavior, social differences in alcoholism rates or the unfolding of the disease. Biological findings about the offspring of alcoholics have been inconsistent and grounds exist to challenge the notion of an enhanced genetic liability for alcoholism that has been accepted wisdom for the last decade. Genuine attempts to forge data and theory into genetic models have been limited to men alcoholics and to a minority of severely afflicted alcoholics with other special characteristics. However, several investigators dispute the idea of a special type of inherited alcoholism affecting only such groups. Even for these populations, balanced genetic models leave room for the substantial impact of environmental, so...

Journal of studies on alcohol, 1987

The primary approach to eliminating drug abuse in America for most of the 20th century has been t... more The primary approach to eliminating drug abuse in America for most of the 20th century has been to prohibit the use and sale of certain drugs and to shut down drug supply lines. Yet drug abuse persists at high levels and the use of outlawed substances is a common feature of American life from high school on. The failure of drug policies has not discouraged, but seemingly fuels, renewed efforts of the same kind. Contrasting with this focus on the inherent dangers of the substance itself, the effort to control alcohol abuse has instead focused, since the end of Prohibition, on the characteristics of the individual alcoholic. In recent years, however, the public-health model of alcohol abuse and the psychophysiological formulation of alcohol dependence have emphasized that alcoholism is a consequence of the amount of alcohol available in the society and consumed by the individual drinker. In this way, alcohol and drug dependence (or addiction) formulations have coalesced: both assume t...

Circulation, Jan 25, 2001