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2-for-1 on genetic/neuro essentialist accounts of addiction! Biomedical reductionism is alive and well, and still promising future treatments breakthroughs around the corner.. theconversation.com/alcohol-and-dr…


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An excerpt from another brilliant mind, John Booth Davies. This is from his book The Myth of Addiction. I know it’s available for free online somewhere.

John Booth Davies/Niall Coggans, 1991:

cleanslateblog's tweet image. John Booth Davies/Niall Coggans, 1991:
cleanslateblog's tweet image. John Booth Davies/Niall Coggans, 1991:


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"The persistence of alcohol stigma highlights the limitations of an illness model ... for stigma reduction; in fact, many groups inadvertently reinforce stigma by emphasising the artificial line between ‘normal’ drinkers and the pathologised ‘alcoholic other’.."

🗣️New publication🗣️ 'Why stigma matters in addressing alcohol harm' With @geschom for @APSAD_DAR It's quite concise & #openaccess but summary 🧵👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… #stigma #AUD #recovery



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Here's my submitted comment if it is helpful to anyone: osf.io/chg32 There's so much more that could have been said but only so much time in a day 🙃 Please consider submitting a formal comment if you haven't already! Comments are due April 27th.

Cassie_Boness's tweet image. Here's my submitted comment if it is helpful to anyone: osf.io/chg32

There's so much more that could have been said but only so much time in a day 🙃

Please consider submitting a formal comment if you haven't already! Comments are due April 27th.
Cassie_Boness's tweet image. Here's my submitted comment if it is helpful to anyone: osf.io/chg32

There's so much more that could have been said but only so much time in a day 🙃

Please consider submitting a formal comment if you haven't already! Comments are due April 27th.

Writing up my "preaddiction" comment



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Author @MPLerario implies that if changes appear on brain imaging that means the condition is brain disease rather than psych disorder. No. All mental activity correlates with brain activity, so most psych disorders have abnormal imaging. That doesn't make them brain disorders...


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Consider commenting!

#NIDA and @NIAAAnews are inviting input on use of a term like "preaddiction" from people with lived experiences of substance use, medical and scientific research communities, and other interested parties by April 27: loom.ly/j1UTnxs



Recordings of our webinars are available via youtube.com/@addictiontheo…. Those by Rebecca Lemon and Hanna Pickard have just been uploaded should you be interested.


Our webinar featuring Rebecca Lemon is happening today!


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I regularly read how alcohol problems are "around 50%" heritable with no qualifier about what it means. It does *not* mean genes account for half the development of AUD. Recent 'polygenic risk scores (PGRS)' suggest *far* lower levels of variance accounted for by genes.. 1/4

Quick common misinterpretation - heritability is not an index of the genetic basis of a trait or a measure of the relative contribution of nature : nurture. It's the proportion of phenotypic variance for some trait that is explained by genetic variance. 9/



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Happy New Year! IAS is excited to kick off the 2023 Distinguished Speaker Series with @LatimoreAmanda from the American Institutes for Research and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. January 18th @ 12:00-1:00pm PST Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

IASatUSC's tweet image. Happy New Year! IAS is excited to kick off the 2023 Distinguished Speaker Series with @LatimoreAmanda from the American Institutes for Research and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. 

January 18th @ 12:00-1:00pm PST

Register here:
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'Different framings were often seen as incompatible, especially when one belonged to the ‘biological’ cluster and the other did not... psychological framings led participants to assume the behaviour was malleable, and biological framings led them to assume it was not'

Biology, society, or choice: How do non-experts interpret scientific explanations of behaviour? psyarxiv.com/2z5h9



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Could be of interest to @Drugs_NW

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