Addiction & Treatment
GENERAL INFORMATION #
RELATED VAULTS #
ASK EROWID ANSWERS #
ARTICLES & WRITINGS #
A Curious Cure - Erowid Extracts, Nov 2008
Rats Prefer Sweetened Water to Cocaine - Erowid Extracts, Nov 2008
Smoking While Drinking & Nicotine and Reinforcement - Erowid Extracts, Nov 2007
On the Nature of Addiction, by Emmanuelle Galicher
Addict Aftercare: essence or afterthought?, by Stephen Pittel
RESEARCH & JOURNAL ARTICLES #
Drug Addiction as a Pathology of Staged Neuroplasticity, Neuropsychopharmacology, 2008
MEDIA COVERAGE #
Addiction Doesn't Discriminate? Wrong, by Sally Satel, NY Times, Sep 2 2008
Brain Images of Addiction Show Its Neural Basis, by Daniel Goleman, NY Times, Aug 1996
Hardest Habit to Break: Memories of the High - NY Times, Oct 27 1998
An Evolving Definition of Addiction - NY Times, Aug 2 1994
EXPERIENCES #
Life-Changing Problems by TheMerryPrankster
The Insidious Threat by Zool
Skin by Unspun
BOOKS #
Addiction: A Disorder of Choice, by Gene Heyman
Addiction is a Choice, by Jeffrey A. Schaler
Drugs, Addiction and Initiation, by Luigi Zoja
A Small Journal of Heroin Addiction, by Robin Marchesi
OFF-SITE RESOURCES
PRIMARY RESOURCES #
BridgetoTreatment.org Substance Use Disorder Medical Training
SECONDARY RESOURCES #
TREATMENT HELP #
All About Addiction (Blog)
RESEARCH #
Addiction Research News - PsyPost
People with alcohol dependency lack important enzyme - PsyPost, Aug 30 2016
Trigger Addiction: Molecular biology teases out two distinct forms of alcoholism - The Scientist, Dec 2008
Addiction Keeps Its Own Clock - June 2005
ARTICLES & WRITINGS #
The Hidden Link Between Autism and Addiction - Maia Szalavitz, Feb 2017
What "Addiction" Really Means - Jerrold C. Winter, May 2016
Why the "Disease Model" Fails to Convince Americans That Addiction Is a Health Issue - Maia Szalavitz, Mar 2016
Government Says You Can't Overcome Addiction, Contrary to What Government Research Shows - Stanton Peele, Feb 1 2014
Craving Cocaddiction, or Craven Cocabhorrence, Jonathan Ott, JCL, 2001
MEDIA COVERAGE #
I Might Have Said "No" to Rehab, Too - Slate, Feb 23, 2016
Does Teen Drug Rehab Cure Addiction or Create It?, Jul 16 2010, Time.com
The Evidence Gap: Drug rehabilitation or revolving door?, Dec 22 2008, NY Times
Drug treatment advocates in a divided house, Dec 2 2008, LA Times
So, What Made Me an Addict?, Aug 2007, WashingtonPost
GOVERNMENT SITES #
NON-ENGLISH RESOURCES #
LiberAddictus: Espacio de información sobre adicciones y salud mental (México / Español)