Tag: addiction and mental health
Responsibility Without Blame in Therapeutic Communities: Interview with Philosopher Hanna Pickard
Hanna Pickard on the elusive middle ground between personal responsibility and systemic factors in our understandings of addiction.
āIs Addiction Really a Disease?ā
Neuroscientist and psychologist Marc Lewis, author ofĀ āThe Biology of Desire: Why Addiction Is Not A Disease,ā suggests in the Guardian that treating addiction as...
“Culturally Specific Treatment Center Knows That One Approach Doesnāt Work for...
"What was going on inside Turning Point was an experiment: a community-based treatment center designed to serve low-income African-Americans. After a few bumpy early...
ā4 in 10 Know Someone Addicted to Prescription Pain Killerā
A new poll, published in the Washington Post, explores the publicās connection to prescription pain killer abuse.Ā āA surprising 56 percent of the public say...