The Stanton Peele Addiction Website

Stanton Peele is not your mainstream psychologist. Read his viewpoints on alcoholism, addictions and addiction treatment.

Stanton Peele is a licensed psychologist, attorney and the author of numerous books and articles on the subject of alcoholism, addiction and treatment. He has pioneered, among other things, the idea that addiction occurs with a range of experiences, and the "harm reduction" approach to addiction.

Despite research and a general belief in the addictions treatment field that alcoholism and addictions are medically/biologically based diseases, Dr. Peele does not view addictions as medical problems but as "problems of life" that most people overcome and that the failure to do so is the exception rather than the rule.

Dr. Peele has won numerous awards for his contribution to the field of alcoholism including the Alfred R. Lindesmith Award for achievement in the Field of Scholarship, from the Drug Policy Foundation and the Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies Mark Keller Award for Alcohol Studies for his article "The limitations of control-of-supply models for explaining and preventing alcoholism and drug addiction."

Contents:

• Stanton Peele's Approach
• Denial - of Reality and of Freedom - in Addiction Research and Treatment
• Bad Advice for Lindsay Lohan
• Addiction: The Analgesic Experience
• A Brief History of the National Council on Alcoholism through Pictures
• Addiction to Get Rich Quick Schemes
• Can I Ever Get Off Methadone
• Can My Son's Marijuana Use Be Therapeutic
• Diseasing of America - 6. What Is Addiction, and How Do People Get It
• Drug and Alcohol Policy
• Genetic Models
• How Do I Get My Boyfriend to Quit Drugs / Drinking
• How Do I Help a Friend in a Hospital for Drug Treatment and a Suicide Attempt
• I Was Surprised That My Inmate Husband Is a Pot Smoker
• John Allen of the NIAAA's Response to Stanton Peele's Article on Project MATCH in the Sciences
• Journal Articles and Book Chapters
• Love and Addiction - Appendix
• Mother Asks For Help for Her Daughter
• My Husband Is Continuously Losing Jobs and Has No Desire to Do Anything But Sit and Drink
• Palm eBooks
• Presentations
• Reducing Harms from Youth Drinking
• Should I Turn My Father over to His Military Superiors
• Stanton, Have You Been Bought
• Stop Making Excuses for Drug Addiction
• The Conflict between Public Health Goals and the Temperance Mentality
• The Road to Hell
• What Do I Do when I Find an Adoptive Baby has Special Problems Possibly Related to Her Mother's Drug Use
• What Do You Think of Methadone Treatment, and Is It Good for Me
• What Do You Think of SMART Recovery
• What Is Your Attitude towards Audrey Kishline's "Accident"
• Why Are So Many Indians Alcoholics
• Why Do Controlled Drinking Outcomes Vary by Investigator, by Country and by Era
• Why Do You Slight Benjamin Rush's Discovery that Alcoholism Is a Disease
• Book - Addiction Proof Your Child
• Book - The Meaning of Addiction
• Stanton Peele's Bookshop

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