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Registration for our next free webinar (15 May 2023) featuring @DrCarlErik (“The Urge – lessons from the intellectual and cultural history of addiction”) is now open:
https://t.co/NCzeVYBthO

[James Morris @jamesmorris24]

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..

https://t.co/uNNSVSkOzp

[Mel @melbee4444]

@AnAddictAtheist @AddictTheoryNet 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.

https://t.co/zL4FAMIAZF

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Starting in just over 30 minutes!

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Registration for our next free webinar (15 May 2023) featuring @DrCarlErik (“The Urge – lessons from the intellectual and cultural history of addiction”) is now open:
https://t.co/NCzeVYBthO

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Still time to register!

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Registration for our next free webinar (15 May 2023) featuring @DrCarlErik (“The Urge – lessons from the intellectual and cultural history of addiction”) is now open:
https://t.co/NCzeVYBthO

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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’.."

[James Morris @jamesmorris24]

🗣️New publication🗣️

'Why stigma matters in addressing alcohol harm'

With @geschom for @APSAD_DAR

It's quite concise & #openaccess but summary 🧵👇
https://t.co/oTFEn2jz3y #stigma #AUD #recovery

[Cassie Boness, PhD @Cassie_Boness]

Here's my submitted comment if it is helpful to anyone: https://t.co/heJv3vtSIE

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.

[Diane O'Leary, PhD @DianeOLeary]

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...

[Cassie Boness, PhD @Cassie_Boness]

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Recordings of our webinars are available via https://t.co/LgtRn1xRm6. Those by Rebecca Lemon and Hanna Pickard have just been uploaded should you be interested.

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@CounsellorAndy yes, it should be uploaded here in due course: https://t.co/t2vlZteq7m

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Our webinar featuring Rebecca Lemon is happening today!

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Registration for our next free webinar (17/02/23) featuring Rebecca Lemon (“Defining Addiction - From Devotion to Dogma”) is now open: https://t.co/y6xOwBBs1x

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Could be of interest to @drughistory @DrinkingStudies @SSA_Addiction @apadivision50 @Drugs_NW Please RT

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Registration for our next free webinar (17/02/23) featuring Rebecca Lemon (“Defining Addiction - From Devotion to Dogma”) is now open: https://t.co/y6xOwBBs1x

[James Morris @jamesmorris24]

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

[Institute for Addiction Science at USC @IASatUSC]

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:
https://t.co/HoOrOse3RA

[James Morris @jamesmorris24]

'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'

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Starting soon!

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Registration for our next free webinar featuring Hanna Pickard (“The puzzle of addiction”) is now open:
https://t.co/xlHyPj5tL1

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Still time to register for Monday's webinar!

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Registration for our next free webinar featuring Hanna Pickard (“The puzzle of addiction”) is now open:
https://t.co/xlHyPj5tL1