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Challenges the myth that alcoholism and drug use are biochemical diseases necessitating medical treatment, treatment that has become big business, and emphasizes our strength and capacity to change by choice
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Alcoholism and drug-taking may be addictions, but they are not diseases, maintains clinical psychologist Peele. In a plainspoken and courageous critique that goes against current medical fashion, the coauthor of Love and Addiction attacks the "addiction-as-disease" model promoted by Alcoholics Anonymous, drug treatment centers and others. He asserts that such programs blunt a substance abuser's sense of personal responsibility and, in so doing, may actually worsen her or his chances for recovery. He further argues that behavioral, family, aversive and "community reinforcement" therapies--or no therapy at all--work as well as AA. Peele is appalled by the extension of the disease model of addiction to such activities as overeating, smoking, compulsive sex and gambling. His hard-hitting attack on he "addiction treatment industry" supplies an effective antidote to what he sees as a breakdown of personal will, social support and a sense of community.
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- PublisherLexington Books
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0669200158
- ISBN 13 9780669200157
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages336
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