Stanton's Blog

• I'm in Brigadoon--Irish Drinking and Irish Pubs. May 30, 2008.
• We're getting unhealthier, no matter how much we spend. May 28, 2008.
• The 'Tragic Fallacy' that the World Revolves Around the Clintons. May 23, 2008.
• Reckless Sex and Power III: The Top Seven Kennedy Sex Scandals. May 21, 2008.
• Are You Addicted? May 17, 2008.
• Harry Houdini Had Too Much Integrity to Do Therapy on TV. May 15, 2008.
• How to Tell Kooky Nuts in the Addiction Field. May 13, 2008.
• PT Readers’ Drug Abuse Prevention Policy – I couldn’t have done better myself. May 11, 2008.
• How First Nations People Cure Their Own Addictions. May 10, 2008.
• Go Ahead -- Write My Blog! May 7, 2008.
• I Kid Because I Love - I Didn't Really Mean We Should Bomb Spain! May 5, 2008.
• War of the Generations. May 4, 2008.
• No Pill Can Cure Addiction. April 29, 2008.
• Dying of Thirst. April 27, 2008.
• Answers to Addiction Quiz: Homage to Uncle Ozzie. April 24, 2008.
• How to Quit Addiction: The Uncle Ozzie Quiz. April 23, 2008.
• Linguistic Reasons I Can’t Vote for Any of the Candidates. April 21, 2008.
• My Father Is More Intellectual than the Holy Father. April 20, 2008.
• Hillary Enters Rehab! April 17, 2008.
• Message to Pope: God Needs Assertiveness Training. April 14, 2008.
• Want to Live Long? -- Drink. April 12, 2008.
• A Stripper Is My Daughter’s Role Model. April 10, 2008.
• Democrats are Bigots - They Like Smart People. April 9, 2008.
• Open letter to Nora Volkow. April 6, 2008.
• End Alcoholism -- Bomb Spain. April 4, 2008.
• The End of Addiction! April 2, 2008.
• America, Land of the Irrational. March 31, 2008.
• Why Politicians Get Laid More – the Low Road to the High Life. March 30, 2008.
• Heeeeeere’s Harm Reduction. March 28, 2008.
• Protect Poor Chelsea Clinton! March 26, 2008.
• Sex Addicts Anonymous Meeting, Politicians' Division. March 25, 2008.
• Religion as Craziness. March 22, 2008.
• Is Eliot Spitzer an Addict? March 17, 2008.
• The Wives’ Club – Stand-by-Your-Man Psychology. March 13, 2008.
• Therapy by Job, Shakespeare, and Dostoyevsky. March 11, 2008.
• Who Should Teach Your Child to Drink? March 6, 2008.
• America’s Abstinence Fixation “Bites” the Dust. March 3, 2008.
• Pretty Soon, No More Addiction! February 25, 2008.
• News item: Alcoholism not recognized and treated enough in U.S.! February 21, 2008.
• Lying About Recovery. February 12, 2008.
• If God Hurts Those Who Sin, What’s He Been Saying Lately? February 9, 2008.
• Five Things History Can’t Stop. February 8, 2008.
• Miss America to Kids: “Be Anorexic, Like Me”. February 2, 2008.
• Irish Drinking Stereotype Denies Being a Cultural Stereotype. January 26, 2008.
• Accidental Overdose or Suicide? January 24, 2008.
• Why We Can’t Cure Addiction Medically. January 18, 2008.
• Where Are We Headed? January 14, 2008.
• Are you watching Celebrity Rehab on VH1? January 12, 2008.
• Getting Real About Drugs Is Best Harm Prevention. January 10, 2008.
• Letter: My articles in the WSJ. January 7, 2008.
• My Personal Connection to the Presidential Candidates. January 3, 2008.
• Stanton quoted in re latest genetic “discovery”. December 30, 2007.
• Addiction versus Redemption. December 30, 2007.
• Should Barack Obama have Admitted that He Used Drugs? December 24, 2007.
• Thee, Hypocrites: Interview with the Christian Candidates. December 15, 2007.
• Note to the MacArthur Foundation: Here’s What Addiction Is. December 12, 2007.
• To Live or Die in D.C. December 8, 2007.
• Why I Like DSM-IV. December 1, 2007.
• Top Five Reasons CBS News is Full of S. November 28, 2007.
• The Mind of (Alleged) Wife Killers. November 23, 2007.
• ADHD – Altering Kids' Lives Without Addicting Them for Life. November 19, 2007.
• “Pettest of My Pets”: The Inner Worlds of Creative Art, Friendship, and Failed Recovery. November 14, 2007.
• If you believe what you are told. November 6, 2007.
• The Only Free Person in America. November 5, 2007.
• Values Precede Addiction – Britney’s White Trash Budget. November 4, 2007.
• I Didn’t Get Kicked Out of the AA General Services Board Dinner (but I’m not sure I’ll be welcomed back). October 30, 2007.
• AA Appropriates Sobriety. October 24, 2007.
• Stanton on the Gerry Ryan Show. October 22, 2007.
• Stanton and Anna in Europe. October 10, 2007.
• Anna and Stanton Discuss Learning to Drink on CNN. September 30, 2007.
• God Damn, Americans Are Uptight! September 22, 2007.
• Will American Youth Soon Be Drug Free? September 16, 2007.
• Violation of a 20-Year-Old in Rehab. September 12, 2007.
• Anyone Violating the Establishment Clause Out There? September 11, 2007.
• Elvis, Godfather of Prescription Drug Abuse, September 3, 2007.
• A Tribute to Andrew Sarris, August 13, 2007.
• In Defense of Sally Satel, July 29, 2007.
• I Bet Archie $50 We Wouldn’t Get Out of Iraq – I’m Going to Win!, July 28, 2007.
• Oh God! – AA2. July 25, 2007.
• Governors Gone Wild. July 19, 2007.
• Wait a Second – You Mean Most People Overcome Alcoholism Without Treatment? July 10, 2007.
• You Know That Gene for Alcoholism? July 6, 2007.
• Two Ways in Which Life Has Changed. June 30, 2007.
• Video Games Are Addictive – Now What? June 25, 2007.
• “I’m Looking for a Woman with Low Self-Esteem”: The Dirty Life and Times of Crystal Zevon. June 19, 2007.
• Non-Disease Treatment Programs Now Available! June 16, 2007.
• The Story of One Intervention – Warren Zevon. June 14, 2007.
• Bruce Willis Is an Idiot. June 7, 2007.
• The New Synthesis between Disease Theory and CBT = BS. June 4, 2007.
• Comebacks and Failures: Friedkin and Judd in Bug. June 1, 2007.
• American Psychiatric Association Endorses Psychics! May 31, 2007.
• I Would Treat Lindsay Lohan Differently. May 30, 2007.
• They’re Just Not That into Us. 29 May, 2007.
• Lucinda Williams’ Love Life. 27 May, 2007.
• Stanton, Your Ads Are for 12-Step Programs! May 24, 2007.
• The Future of Addiction – “The Drug Dealer is Us!”. May 21, 2007.
• There’s Something Easy that People Like to do that Makes Them Live Longer, but the Government and Medicine are Hiding it from Us. May 17, 2007.
• Get on Message, Bushes! May 16, 2007.
• I Guess He Missed the HBO Series. May 14, 2007.
• Teaching the Wrong Thing. May 11, 2007.
• Who Gets More on the Side – Democrats or Republicans? March 22, 2007.
• What Houdini Tells Us About Life Beyond the Grave. March 19, 2007.
• My comment on HBO series, “Addiction”. March 16, 2007.
• When Will the Embargo on Discussing Alcohol Be Lifted from the Framingham Heart Study? February 16, 2007.
• In Denial. January 8, 2007.
• Good Luck Eliminating Underage Drinking. December 7, 2006.
• Barney Turns Against War. October 21, 2006.
• What’s the First Thing You Do After Committing a Crime? October 4, 2006.
• New Jersey Donates $1.6 Million to Strapped Private Treatment Centers. April 28, 2006.
• Interview in Spiked. April 26, 2006.
• Interview in The Guardian. April 13, 2006.
• Warning – Don’t Pray for Me! April 12 , 2006.
• Perpetual wars. March 30, 2006.
• James Frey. February 21, 2006.
• My Son Died Because of Our Kooky Approach to Drugs – So Let’s Do More of the Same. January 6, 2006.
• Redemption or Corruption? My Name is Earl questions AA verities. November 1, 2005.
• Modern neuroscience has changed our view of addiction, right? October 11, 2005.