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Diseasing of America: How We Allowed Recovery Zealots and the Treatment Industry to Convince Us We Are Out of Control, 1999 Reissued Paper Edition
Stanton Peele
ISBN: 978-0-7879-4643-2
Paperback
336 pages
January 1999
US $27.00 add_to_cart.gif

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Table of Contents
 
Why Addiction Is Not a Disease (And Why We Should Care that It Not Be Treated as Such).

Alcoholism in America (How We Discovered that Alcohol is Addictive and that So Many People Are Alcoholics).

Who Says what the Truths about Alcoholism Are?

Transforming the Addict onto a Role Model, and the Person into an Addict.

The Addiction Treatment Industry.

What Is Addiction, and How Do People Get It? (Values, Intentions, Self-Restraint, and Environments).

How People Quit Addictions, Usually on Their Own.

Our Confusion over Law, Morality, and Addiction.

How We Lost Control of Our World.

Creating a World Worth Living In (Community, Efficacy, and Values).