Stanton Peele on Addiction

I talk with Staton Peele about the nature of addiction. Peele believes that addiction is a life problem, not a brain disease. We talk about the ideas that he has been writing about for many years. Chapters: 00:00:00 Stanton Peele https://peele.net/ 00:02:43 Failure is redefined as success in addition science  00:05:05 Life Process Program https://lifeprocessprogram.com/ 00:07:33 Most rehab sets a person up for failure  00:09:01 A non-disease approach is more realistic  00:10:11 Harm reduction  00:10:49 The entire addiction field is built on bullshit  00:11:55 What is addiction?  00:13:41 Opioid addiction  00:16:37 Mindfulness  00:17:11 Responsibility in addiction  00:19:19 What does a person gain from addiction?  00:21:57 Brain science BS in addiction  00:22:05 Life needs to come online with their values  00:24:20 Human motivation and experience help a person quit  00:26:23 Dealing with addiction as a disease makes it worse  00:28:52 Freud and secondary gain  00:31:14 My job is to open a window for a person  00:31:46 You have the power to improve yourself  00:31:48 Encouraging a person is the most essential ingredient  00:33:25 Labels hurt a person  00:36:21 Therapeutic State https://amzn.to/36n63KJ 00:36:31 Jeffrey Schaler https://youtu.be/7wySu4S1w14 00:37:20 Addiction that causes the most deaths  00:42:43 Addiction to alcohol  00:45:08 Living a good life prevents addiction  00:48:04 Labels can be crippling  00:48:57 Life Process Program https://lifeprocessprogram.com/ 00:49:23 Peele.net https://peele.net/ 00:49:37 Books by Stanton Peele https://amzn.to/3q5p7Va 00:52:35 Stanton's Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lpp-podcast/id1494188367 00:53:03 Stanton's YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSYridYK8h1uXu0Gx0Kl2Og