A View From the Other Side: What Disease?

A psychiatrist takes issue with the semantics of addictive disease in SLATE.
See "Medical Misnomer: Addiction isn't a brain disease, Congress."
By Sally Satel and Scott Lilienfeld
The Science of Substance Abuse
Dirk Hanson
Articles and health studies about
addiction and alcoholism, including the most recent scientific and medical findings.

A psychiatrist takes issue with the semantics of addictive disease in SLATE.
See "Medical Misnomer: Addiction isn't a brain disease, Congress."
By Sally Satel and Scott Lilienfeld
Posted by
Dirk Hanson
at
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Labels: addiction, addictive, alcoholism, brain, brain disease slate, disease, drug rehab, drugs
"A savvy, big-hearted exploration of the latest investigations into addiction science."--Kirkus Discoveries
The Chemical Carousel: What Science Tells Us About Beating Addiction. By Dirk Hanson
Amazon, BookSurge, Alibris, Abebooks.
Notes, bibliography, index. 472 pages. ISBN 1439212996
Publicist: Bill Hawkins, Straight Arrow PR.
For more, see The Chemical Carousel web site."Why Do Schizophrenics Smoke Cigarettes?" Brain Blogger. July 3, 2009.
"The Many Facets of Addiction." Brain Blogger. April 25, 2009. [Click Here for Podcast].
"Clearing the Haze: Is Marijuana Addictive?" Brain Blogger. May 19, 2009. [Click Here for Podcast].
"Marijuana Withdrawal Syndrome." Brain Blogger. June 15, 2009.
"Heavy Traffic: The Great Merge Debate." Blogcritics Magazine. May 7, 2009.
"We Shouldn't Treat Dirt Like Dirt." Blogcritics Magazine. June 7, 2009.
"Marijuana Withdrawal: A Survey of Symptoms." In The Praeger International Collection on Addictions. Ed. by Angela Browne-Miller. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 2009. Vol. 2 Ch. 15 pp.111-124.
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