Is Addiction a Habit or a Choice?  It's an age-old debate: Are
addicts failing to exercise control or have they fallen victim
to a disease that has taken over their brain and rendered them
powerless? The answer is neither and both, so pay close
attention...  Addiction, connection and the Rat Park study
F%$& Shame, TEDx and Mental Health  Many of us don't give the
proper weight to the use of mental health labels. As this talk
shows, diagnostic labels can actually impact the way in which
labeled individuals perform. If nothing else, this fact should
make us more wary of using these labels as everyday placeholders
to describe those around us. We may just be sentencing them to
meeting our low expectations.  Breaking Good - When meth
addiction resolves  Coming face to face with your own shame and
emotion about the past can be hard. This is me trying to do it
in public.  Do Moderation Programs Encourage Alcoholic Drinking?
The fear that abstinent people in recovery will begin drinking
if moderation programs are