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…
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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…
With One Bold Act, The Industry Could Change Everything.
Tear Down The Barrier To The Truth About Addiction! In an imperfect addiction industry, there are many things in need of improvement. But there is one obstacle, that through the decades, has grown to underpin and surround the industry, forming a blockade that preserves unproven beliefs and practices while keeping out new insight, understanding and unimagined opportunity. Tearing that…
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…
The Exit Plan
Stand Up! Make It Personal. Part 4 Is There An Addiction Brain? If we trace the path of addiction research, sift through the volumes of published reports and opinions from science, medicine, justice, and education; then add the evolutionary (certainly not revolutionary) development of treatment, we find the one question that when answered, can place us on the path…
Life After Sports – Do You Have A Story?
When Life After Sports Leads To Eating Disorders & Addiction I need your help. Do you know an NCAA athlete who developed an eating disorder or substance abuse problem during or after leaving their sport? If so, please let me know. I’m developing a piece on the difficult transition for the elite college athlete returning to the real world,…