Time Ran Out In Wimberley, Texas. In our little town of Wimberley. Texas, this Memorial Day weekend, time ran out for hundreds of families that live and vacation along the lovely Blanco (pronounced Blank-o) River. Folks around here aren’t easily thrown by inclement conditions. We’re quite familiar with severe drought and with flash floods, to the extent that area meteorologists…
Category: 12-steps
What Difference Does It Make How Addiction Is Defined?
It can be an effective technique for responding to tough questions, when the person being interviewed either doesn’t know, or doesn’t want to provide, the information requested. Simply dismiss the question and its relevance, by challenging the interviewer with, “What difference does it make?” While Hillary Clinton didn’t invent the tactic, she did make it famous, during a…
Making The Case
Making The Case Today, The Stand presents opening remarks in its argument that the addiction industry has misled the American public by claiming scientific certainty that addiction is a chronic brain disease, and by claiming that current treatment methods effectively manage the chronic disease. As will be shown, evidence fails to support either claim. Rather, in both cases, a preponderance…
When Everybody Knows What No One Can Prove…
Brain Science. What, Like it’s hard? Part 3a The enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, but the myth – JFK In his 1962 Yale commencement speech, President John F. Kennedy addressed one of the great issues facing our nation at that time. And now, 53 years later, his same remarks go right to the heart of…