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Addiction



by Ballard Quass, the Drug War Philosopher


October 11, 2023

The Myth of the Addictive Personality


Addicted to Ignorance


Addicted to Addiction


America's Invisible Addiction Crisis


Open Letter to Addiction Specialist Gabriel Maté


Sherlock Holmes versus Gabriel Maté


Why Louis Theroux is Clueless about Addiction and Alcoholism


In the Realm of Hungry Drug Warriors


Modern Addiction Treatment as Puritan Indoctrination


How the Drug War Turns the Withdrawal Process into a Morality Tale


Night of the Addicted Americans


The aesthetic difference between addiction and chemical dependency


Tapering for Jesus


How Addiction Scientists Reckon without the Drug War


How Prohibition Causes Addiction

AFTER THE DRUG WAR



Replacing Psychiatry with Pharmacologically Savvy Shamanism


Public Service Announcements for the Post-Drug War Era

ALCOHOL



Heroin versus Alcohol


Why Louis Theroux is Clueless about Addiction and Alcoholism


Open Letter to Gabrielle Glaser





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"My faith votes and strives to outlaw religions that use substances of which politicians disapprove."
"There has been so much delirious nonsense written about drugs that sane men may well despair of seeing the light." -- Aleister Crowley, from "Essays on Intoxication"
Someday those books about weird state laws will be full of factoids like: "In Alabama, you could be jailed for 20 years for conspiring to eat a mushroom."
Of course, prohibitionists will immediately remind me that we're all children when it comes to drugs, and can never -- but never -- use them wisely. That's like saying that we could never ride horses wisely. Or mountain climb. Or skateboard.
The FDA tells us that MDMA is not safe at the same time as they tell us that "shock therapy" IS safe. What?! Shock therapy "works" by damaging the brain.
Prohibition is wrong root and branch. It seeks to justify the colonial disdain for indigenous healing practices through fearmongering.
The government causes problems for those who are habituated to certain drugs. Then they claim that these problems are symptoms of an illness. Then folks like Gabriel Mate come forth to find the "hidden pain" in "addicts." It's one big morality play created by drug laws.
Even when laudanum was legal in the UK, pharmacists were serving as moral adjudicators, deciding for whom they should fill such prescriptions. That's not a pharmacist's role. We need an ABC-like set-up in which the cashier does not pry into my motives for buying a substance.
I'm looking for a United Healthcare doctor now that I'm 66 years old. When I searched my zip code and typed "alternative medicine," I got one single solitary return... for a chiropractor, no less. Some choice. Guess everyone else wants me to "keep taking my meds."
In "Four Good Days" the pompous white-coated doctor ignores the entire formulary of mother nature and instead throws the young heroin user on a cot for 3 days of cold turkey and a shot of Naltrexone: price tag $3,000.
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