PARENTS – You’re Not Training Animals!
How should you feel about yourself if your child becomes a drug addict? Should you be ashamed that you did a poor job as a parent? Someone recently asked philosopher Leonard Peikoff a similar...
View ArticleChoice and Will Power
Will-Power is often confused as being the key element in a choice based model of addiction. One needn't deny their will in order to solve a substance use problem. Just because addiction is not a...
View ArticleWorld Series Baseball, Pain Medication, Addiction Falsehoods, And Existential...
Addiction myths permeate our entire culture, even news coverage of the World Series. Which falsehoods are being spread, and how can we debunk them? Does pain medication cause "addiction" or "relapse"?...
View ArticlePhilosophical Problem with the Brain Disease Model of Addiction:...
the brain disease model of addiction comes from a deterministic philosophy, in which free will doesn't exist. This is logically impossible. The post Philosophical Problem with the Brain Disease Model...
View ArticleNora Volkow (NIDA) uses Scare Quotes when referring to Free Will
Nora Volkow undermines her own disease theory of addiction by demonstrating her lack of belief in free will. She does this by scare-quoting several free will terms in her writing. The post Nora Volkow...
View ArticleStanton Peele pens new paper on free will and addiction
The key issue in addiction is free will. There’s no way around this. The entire notion of addiction rests on the assertion that the “addict” lacks free will in some way (either solely in regard to...
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