LPP Podcast
In this podcast, addiction expert Dr. Stanton Peele and Zach Rhoads offer practical advice on building life skills and finding purpose. They discuss how personal growth and meaningful goals can help people move beyond addictive behaviors. Drawing on Dr. Peele's extensive clinical experience, the hosts share insights on developing self-efficacy and taking control of one's life. Each episode explores strategies for outgrowing addiction and achieving lasting fulfillment.
Episodes
The Booze Paradox: Why Temperance Cultures Have The WORST Alcohol Problems
Is alcohol inherently harmful, or is the way we talk about it the real problem?In this episode, Dr. Stanton Peele and Zach Rhoads tackle the cultural contradictions around alcohol consumption.They break down why countries that drink more tend to have fewer alcohol-related harms, why "NO SAFE LEVEL" messaging is misleading, and how a temperance mindset might actually INCREASE problem drin
Are Kids Really More DEPRESSED and ANXIOUS Than Ever? What Can We Do? | Life Process Program
An alarming statistic from the NIH: 17% of 12-17 year olds in the united states is mentally unwell.
What accounts for this, and what can we do about it? (Hint: we've been trying antidepressants and therapy for decades and the problem has only become worse).
Zach and Dr. Peele drill deeper.
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REBROADCAST: Re-Writing Your Life Story
This is a playback of a 2018 episode of the LPP Podcast in which we discuss the following:
The Life Process Program takes clients through a staged review of their life stories, focusing first on mistakes, continuing to how they might have acted differently to avoid these pitfalls, to re-conceiving their life stories to focus on positives, and finally to projecting their life stories forward into
This Man Studied the Lives of CENTENARIANS, What He Discovered May SHOCK You | Mario Martinez | LPP
Dr. Mario Martinez is a neuropsychologist who lectures worldwide on how cultural beliefs affect health and longevity. He is also the author of The Mind Body Code --- which you can check out on amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/MindBody-Code-Beliefs-Longevity-Success/dp/1622037618
Importantly, Mario studies culture and belief systems, and how they affect longevity and well-being. (As opposed to
Talking Your CHILD Through ADDICTION, Collaborative Problem Solving THAT WORKS!
Zach Rhoads follows Dr. Peele's previous 5 "Ted Talks" -- 10 minute talks about addiction, natural recovery, harm reduction, and commonsense strategies for overcoming addiction. In his latest talk, Peele also laid out a "helping professional's" Bill of Rights, which instructs the following be present in helping individuals achieve a greater sense of well-being:
(1) re
Most People Outgrow ADDICTION - 10 Minutes on How YOU Can Help
Rat Park and Vietnam tell us two crucial things about addiction and recovery. They first show that recovery is a natural process when the organism returns to a normally rewarding and supportive environment. Even more importantly — certainly not the rats, but the human beings in Vietnam were never conditioned to think of themselves as “addicts.”
Thus their identities were never trapped, which is
How do people QUIT ADDICTIONS? | It's a VALUES Statement
In this short video, addiction psychologist Dr. Stanton Peele explains that people quit addictions by finding ways to live their values (as opposed to simply choosing 'techniques').
He lays out the following points
I. Dr. Peele's Uncle Ozzie quits smoking, suddenly
II. Such a powerful addiction: how can a person do that (1) oh it’s only cigarettes (2) a HIGHER percentage of people
THREE Criteria for an Addictive Experience | PSYCHOLOGIST Breaks Down Addiction in 5 Minutes
If common experiences are at the core of addiction, how do we define addictive experiences so as to distinguish them from ordinary ones?
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Psychologist Responds to Judson Brewer's Ted Talk | What is Addiction? How Can You Beat It?
Dr. Stanton Peele Delivers His OWN Ted Talk (From home), in response to Judson Brewer's talk, "A Simple Way to Break a Bad Habit" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-moW9jvvMr4
Summary:
Have you noticed confusion, conflict and disastrous failures across the board around drugs and addiction?
We at Life Process Program have (unfortunately) understood the hole we’ve been digging for our
Finding Purpose in Mid to Late Life (EVEN When It's Painful To Get Started!)
Several of our clients have told us something to the effect of:
“I know that Meaning/purpose in life is a bulwark against addiction. But I’m ____ (45 - 65) years old…. I have failed relationships / estranged kids… It’s hard to find meaning”
Dr. Peele and LPP coach Zach Rhoads help our 50+ year old clients begin to generate a optimistic but practical Life-Purpose Road Map
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Is Drinking HELPFUL or HARMFUL - Wanna Get CONFUSED? Then Read the NYT!
Zach Rhoads and Dr. Stanton Peele contemplate the transfer of knowledge about alcohol from Science to Society — and how imperfectly the job gets done. “Alcohol: Even a Little Bit Is Harmful!” the headline screams. It turns out that none of the experts interviewed advocates abstinence — including the director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (now there’s a title!).
In fact,
Three Pscyhologically EFFECTIVE Ways To Set Goals -- And STICK TO THEM
Step by Step Change v Radical Transformation: Two LPP paths to the same destination
Placing the person in the driver’s seat of their lives through each method.
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Why Is America SAD? | Anderson Cooper, Serena Williams, Taylor Swift, and TRAUMA THEORY
How did the main theme in American life become confronting the lifetime effects of trauma, rather than triumphing over them?
This preoccupation with trauma includes arguably the greatest stars in our universe: Anderson Cooper in political commentary, Taylor Swift in music, Serena Williams in sports, Steven Spielberg in movies. What does it signify about us that we now think of ourselves as
he History of NON-DISEASE Addiction Treatment
Tom Horvath (SMART Recovery) and Stanton Peele (Life Process Program) delve into their decades’ long association in the battle to establish non-disease, harm reduction treatment in the United States. Their connection is supportive, even affectionate. Each in their own way — Tom through his decades of establishing an international association of SMART Recovery groups, Stanton by attacking the disea
Are "Alcoholism" And "Addiction" REAL? | DSM vs AA vs LPP
There is a movement against use of labels like “alcoholism” and “addiction” as being pejorative and discouraging. 3
Zach and Stanton evaluate these critiques and discuss how to deal constructively with what some people call “loss of control” substance use. As always, their approach is to respect clients and their values, focus on the here and now, seek incremental and realistic improvements, and t
Removing The MAGIC From The Magic MUSHROOM
We have embarked on a psychedelic renaissance, including use for both therapeutic and consciousness expansion purposes. In both cases the drug allows people to recast their consciousness — of themselves, of their worlds, of eternity.
This shifting of the cosmic egg is captured by the title of the best seller (with accompanying Netflix docuseries) by Michael Pollan, How To Change Your Mind. W
988 Mental Health Hotline WON'T SOLVE our Mental Health CRISIS!
The new mental health hotline is buckshot. Who actually thinks that calling a stranger for a few minutes addresses problems of depression and anxiety? Indeed, the idea that this makes sense is a symbol of America’s despair and cluelessness.
The hotline’s appearance in the aftermath of WHO’s June 17 World Mental Health Report, which pleaded for expanding nonexistent and disappearing community
How the addiction concept drives us crazy | Part II: Harm reduction as Reductionism
Harm reduction once sensibly meant dealing with the whole person to reduce their likelihood of harming themselves. Common sense examples abounded — like helping people find work, residences, and communities.
Now it has been narrowed to finding drugs that can cure addiction — an impossibility that implodes harm reduction on itself, losing both the meaning of the word and the power of the tool
How the addiction concept drives us crazy | PART I: SMOKING
When we learned smoking was addictive we threw out all common sense: that people ultimately choose their fates, that they are led that way by their privileges and values, and that to believe that things are died in the wool only makes it harder for us to change those things.
Smoking became a bad habit to eschew, most people with advantages did that more or less, and the expense of smoking be
Top FIVE Mental Health BEST PRACTICES | Life Process Program
Biological psychiatry has IMPLODED, and everyone knows it, including the World Health Organization (WHO) and the long-time (2002-2015) director of the National Institute of Mental Health, Thomas Insel, biological psychiatry’s biggest booster.
Yet, instead of the relief from mental illness and addiction Insel and the entire field have promised from the 1970s on, we are inundated with mental d
The Yin and Yang of Asking Questions (and how to ask them)
How do you learn about people, about life? Questions. Yet again, how do you explore— and poke holes in— preposterous positions that people take? Questions.
Finally, how do you help people come to grips with troubling life issues? You’ve got it— questions. What a versatile tool!
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How Jason Bateman BEAT TRAUMA and Became a STAR In His 50's
The Netflix series “Ozark,” besides being a sustained “hit,” has several psychological and addiction merits. First, show runner and star Jason Batemen could have been a basket case child actor victim. Instead, he’s a role model.
Second, Ozark depicts every variety of drug and alcohol use and reaction.
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WORSE Than Drugs: Johnny Depp and Amber Heard Were LOVE Addicted
We don’t care if Johnny Depp wins his defamation suit against Amber Heard. Nor will we render an opinion about whether “mutual abuse” can be used to describe a relationship where there is such a power differential (on Depp’s end).
What we will say is that both parties participated in an addictive relationship, one that both say destroyed their lives.
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How To Motivate ANYONE using *Motivational Interviewing* and Motivational MISDIRECTION
The use of “misdirection” in MI
Using outside-the-box life areas (e.g., intimate relationships) to explore blind-alley areas of concern (e.g., alcohol), and how MI allows Chris Rock and and Will Smith to understand their difficulties in expressing painful emotions constructively.
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How To Avoid Being DUPED | Addiction, Love, Values, and LESSONS learned from "Bad Vegan" Series
How do we respond to virtually insane behavior by vital, creative women who devote their lives to petty shysters and hoodlums who rip them off and destroy their livelihoods, families, lives? We can issue warnings about checking out online hook-ups. But the signs are always there, background checks or no (hints: when they say they are secret agents, ask endlessly for money, cut off your family conn
Single Drunk Female | What Modern Streaming REVEALS About Harm Reduction
AA doesn’t dominate the alcohol and drug scene the way it did in the last century. Harm Reduction has become a new buzz word, claimed by the most unlikely sources. Meanwhile, popular streaming media depict the reality of a wide variety of substance use patterns by younger generations.
And, yet, as demonstrated by series like “Single Drunk Female” and “Euphoria,” when it comes to
How To Avoid CATFISHING Scams! | Desperate For Love versus SELF EMPOWERMENT
The podcast “Sweet Bobby” raises the question, “What do you call it when a talented, caring woman devotes ten years of her life to an imaginary character, and can still barely function in the aftermath?”
Unfortunately, Tortoise Media is not up to the task. Just like America blames drug manufacturers for our drug deaths epidemic while it rages on, interviewer Alexi Mostrous blames the wiles o
Phil Collins' NON AA "Recovery" + We Answer Questions About Addiction
Dr. Stanton Peele and Zach Rhoads respond to listener feedback.
First, they inspect the old AA adage, "One day at a time"
Then they turn to a case study centered on a former LPP participant (with her permission) -- a case study on overeating and how to manage it in the larger context of a person's life.
Finally, they discuss former Genesis drummer Phil Collins' UNREMARKABLE story of na
Dirty John and the Tinder Swindler
Does love addiction exist?” commentators question. Yet our most popular streaming media stories are replete with the cases of people whose lives are severely disturbed by harmful, irrational intimate involvements — up to an including death. Take “Dirty John”
Meehan (who is dead at the hands of a victim) and Betty Broderick (who killed her exhusband and his replacement wife). Then there are the hun
Alcoholics Anonymous: A Net Good or a Net Harm?
Is AA helpful?
Some people claim that AA offers specific benefits. We should say that we endorse anybody’s right to pursue any form of support or treatment they want, or find helpful, from AA to religion.
But our training and experience cause us to doubt AA’s supposed benefits. One such claim is that making amends to people alcoholics have hurt is a way of reconstructing damaged relationships. But
Johann Hari | Stolen Focus: Why You Can't PAY ATTENTION - And How to Think Deeply Again
NYT Best-Selling Author Johann Hari, In his new book, "Stolen Focus", explains why and how our ability to pay attention is diminishing; he explains why that matters; and he offers potential solutions to those of us who wish to improve our focus and live better lives.
Johann Hari is a British journalist who has written for The Guardian, New York Times, The Independent, Le Monde, and many othe
The End of Trauma with Dr. George Bonanno
Dr. George Bonanno's decades-long research on trauma and resilience reveals that most people overcome traumatic and adverse events in their lives.
More important: people who do feel plagued by chronic dysfunction after traumatic events have the capacity to re-map, regulate emotions, become more flexible, and self-regulate so that their lives are not defined by traumatic events in the past (i
HOW TO PREVENT TRAGEDY School Shootings, GUNS, & Connection
Zach and Stanton discuss the profiles of school shooters. They see a lack of connection that is also present in youth (and older) addiction problems. Zach describes working with such children, including how he might have dealt with the 15–year-old Michigan shooter.
Full disclosure: Neither Stanton or Zach know the backstory of this event beyond mainstream media coverage.
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I May Destroy You + Radical Empathy
Stanton and Zach review America’s allegiance to the opioids-are-inevitably-addictive scenario even though (a) it’s wrong, (b) 100,000 people a year are now dying due to drug use. But separation from our opioid-disease scenario is hard to make happen.
Instead, perhaps, we may find popular media programs that express our point of view in order to get our ideas across. The award-winning show, “I May
Hulu's "Dopesick" is the NEW War on Drugs
“Dopesick” is the new version of the War on Drugs for people who want to demonize drugs but to claim they’re not drug warriors. “It’s in the brain” they screech, pointing to their heads.”We’ll cut painkiller prescriptions and ramp up MOUD around the land. So what if more deprived people die — they’re not on our addiction reovery mailing lists.”
To lighten our podcast, we review what the NYT
DISEASE ENVY - Why People Yearn For Labels, DESPITE Their Best Interests
Stanton and Zach discuss why the disease theory will never die in America, no matter how many Americans die from drugs, even as Carl Hart and others (futilely) join Stanton’s antidisease campaign after four decades on his own.
They then move on to marvel at “disease envy.” Some privileged women now welcome ADHD diagnoses, which had previously been restricted to men, and especially mino
Joe Rogan's talk with "ALL IS DOPAMINE" Addiction Expert - OUR RESPONSE
Dr. Peele and Zach Rhoads respond to clips from Joe Rogan's recent interview with Stanford Psychiatrist and Author Anna Lembke.
It was with some disappointment — but little surprise — that we watched “iconoclast” podcaster Joe Rogan interview an “all-is-dopamine” addiction expert (a position that even Nora Volkow seems to be backtracking on). Disappointment because Rogan seemed so sympatheti
INSTAGRAM Addiction, Revisiting "FREE RANGE", & New BRAIN DISEASE News
Zach and Stanton review the addiction news of the week: from "love" addiction (actually, love is the opposite of addiction) to instagram addiction, to the perpetual search for addiction in the brain.
They then match their perspectives on Zach's interview with Lenore Skenazy, of Free Range children fame. Could she comprehend that Stanton and Zach separate addiction from drugs? Does Lenore thi
Lenore Skenazy | Future-Proofing and ADDICTION-Proofing our Next Generation
Today's guest wants to "future-proof" our next generation. That is, to tug on the natural tendency of children to explore, learn, and grow competent along the way, just as we, at the Life Process Program want to ADDICTION - PROOF our next generation.
Her name is Lenore Skenazy. Lenore famously (or infamously, depending on who you ask) allowed her child to ride a New York City subway home on
Zach Compares Heroin Addiction to Love Addiction -- Stanton Responds
This is a short clip from Zach Rhoads' forthcoming interview with Dr. Stanton Peele.
Stanton wrote the best-selling 1975 book, Love and Addiction, in which he laid out a conceptualization of addiction that transcended the drug-centered conceptualization with which the world was familiar.
In this clip, Zach expresses to Stanton how his concept rings true in his own life as he compares his own heroi
The Ethics of Fighting Disease Myths
There’s no need to contest or censor divergent views on addiction and mental illness as told, for instance, by Koren Zailckas, William Styron, and T Kira Madden. They are effortlessly assimilated into the big ball of wax of the standard disease theory.
The process is aided and abetted by leading theorists and commentators like Sally Satel, David Brooks, Maia Szalavitz, and the New York
MARK NORMAND: Implanting the Recovery Chip | Trauma, Role Models, NON RECOVERY STORY
Zach and Stanton discuss Mark Normand, who as a young man would certainly pass Gabor Maté’s muster as traumatized.
Normand developed drinking issues in his 20s, but didn’t follow the recovery route away from alcoholism. In fact, the recovery chip has to be implanted, as it isn’t the natural response of most people, who instead recover naturally.
What, Stanton and Zach ask, is the
Afghanistan, Vietnam and the Disease Theory of Addiction
Our massive failure in Afghanistan reminds us of cultural delusions that have gutted us in the past—starting with Vietnam. Vietnam signaled that we didn’t comprehend the consequences of our overseas adventures. It also showed that we had no idea about the relationship between drugs and addiction.
We still don’t.
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Olympic Inspiration | Heroic Achievement, Stoicism, & Overcoming Trauma
Zach and Stanton return to the Olympic fields of glory to worship the women who have overcome every challenge—mental health, moral, and existential—by declaring: “I will not be defeated.”
The media and metal health specialists have decided that leaving the field of endeavor for mental health reasons is the secret to happiness. Yet we have never been more miserable. Here, Zach and Stanton explore a
UNDOING DRUGS: A History Of Harm Reduction With MAIA SZALAVITZ
Zach Rhoads speaks with Maia Szalavitz about her new book, "Undoing Drugs", which traces the history of Harm Reduction from the movement's genesis to the way it affects mainstream thoughts, beliefs, policies, and behavior.
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HARM REDUCTION & Community Healing
Zach discusses the personal meaning of community as “therapy” in terms of his own experiences of a family tragedy, one that drew his extended family together. In this discussion he reflects on the view of addiction from a five-year-old’s perspective, finding it to be superior to that of leading addiction specialists, and on the special burden of revealing and dealing with a porn addiction.
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Lean on Me: Stanton sings COMMUNITY as therapy
America is convinced that if it can only provide enough medicalized treatment that all of its citizens will be fine. The opposite is true. As Stanton quotes a chapter head from his memoir:
“The Remedy for Addiction is Purpose, Connection, and Self-Acceptance — we are instead wedded to medicalization, isolation, and self-stigmatization.”
We watch addiction and mental health outcom
Sober Good; Drinking Bad -- Why "Sobriety" is the Modern Temperance
Remarkably, American anti-alcohol forces are front and present in contemporary progressive thought. They are amplified by incessant clarion calls for people to abstain — i.e., to enter “”recovery.” (Query by Ethan Nadelmann: does that mean marijuana too?)
Leading recovery advocates interview and feature prominent media figures — but ignore Bob Weir and Demi Lovato, on the one hand, and Carri
Politics, Britney Spears, Trauma, and DISEASE
Stanton and Zach dissect the current news cycle.
First, Britney Spears revealed she is being medicated against her will. She is still being held captive by her “diseases” (the ones she had in her early twenties). Drew Barrymore and Lindsay Lohan outgrew theirs. Demi Lovato, on the other hand, had to fight her way free of her “handlers” — and from 12-step “sobriety” — to become her own person
Matthew McConaughey and Quinta Brunson -- Parents, Trauma, and Forgiveness
In memoirs that defy current thinking, Matthew McConaughey and Quinta Brunson describe being beaten and repressed, respectively, by their parents. Only they don’t currently dislike their parents or disapprove of their upbringings. Rather they celebrate what their parents did provide—support and love—and their own acceptance of their parents.
Both McConaughey and Brunson refuse to consider th
Mare of Easttown -- Is HBO Moving Away from Drug HYSTERIA?
HBO has become the ultimate destination of Harm Reduction in streaming media with its shows Mare of Easttown and Hacks. In both, the show’s protagonists (again played by women) drink (Mare) and consume drugs (Hacks) without being driven to perdition. Moreover, the creators of each series seem to be actively pursuing a harm reduction vision — meaning not blaming drugs and alcohol for people’s life
American confessions tug at our heart strings. Do they help?
Naomi Osaka’s decision to withdraw from the French Open rather than face a post match press conference became worldwide news. Osaka says her depression and anxiety make it impossible for her to speak in public.
Most observers sympathize with Osaka’s reserve, and castigate the tour directors for making her quit. But tennis legend Billy Jean King and most of Osaka’s fellow players feel that successf
Believing the UNBELIEVABLE: Cognitive Distortions in the Drug Reform Field
WARNING: Please be aware that the following many not be suitable for people who are disturbed by discussions of death OR of the fallible thinking that prevails in the drug reform field.
Leading figures in drug policy reform and addiction theory swear by MAT, which is universally accepted and used across the country.
These well-meaning reformists and experts — groups and individuals like DPA, Maya
You MUST be Treated! (Coerced Treatment and How to Overcome it)
WHY do people so often reject drug and alcohol treatment, let alone refusing to volunteer for it, so that American addiction treatment depends on the legal system to survive? Stanton and Zach discuss the addiction treatment coercion phenomenon and imagine an alternative helping universe.
Coercion is central to the American addiction treatment enterprise. Without the participation of law enfo
The Pandemic Has Made Us All ALCOHOLIC! (or not)
Stanton and Zach consider five responses to NY Times article seeding “pandemic panic” @ alcohol:
1. There hasn’t been a significant increase in drinking.
2. Problems with alcohol and drugs preceded the pandemic, and aren’t due to substances.
3. Judging from Times’ readers’ comments, people with resources do remarkably well adjusting their drinking to their circumstances.
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How Psychedelics Work, Jud Brewer's Mindfulness, Seth Rogen's Cannabis Use | LPP Podcast
Addiction news of the week (and its meaning and uses) in review:
What does it tell us about (a) medical therapy, (b) the history of medicine, (c) the nature of mental disorders that an ancient "herb" (psilocybin) exceeds the most significant product of modern biochemistry (SSRIs) in remedying depression?
In what way is anxiety addiction-like, and how can we use this knowledge to help E
Reflections on Maia Szalavitz, Problems With The Disease Model, Casual Drug Use
Dr. Peele and Zach consider Zach’s interview with Maia Szalavitz. Does Maia believe in the disease theory? What would happen if she took heroin again? Would she "Richard Harris" it (drinking Guinness as a 70ish grandpa)?
Do chronic brain disease advocates understand why families resist their depredations? Are they guilty of manslaughter?
Zach says he’s okay with heroin — unlike the opioided
GUEST Maia Szalavitz: Addiction, Harm Reduction, Methadone Maintenance
Maia Szalavitz joins Zach Rhoads a discussion about addiction and harm reduction, including her forthcoming book, "Undoing Drugs".
Maia and Zach agree on a definition of addiction but re-open their epic argument about "values" ;)
They also discuss Dr. Carl Hart's book, "Drug Use For Grown Ups" -- Maia disagrees with Hart on a fundamental point about Harm Reduction.
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Q&A With Dr. Peele: "Am I focusing TOO much on moderation?"
Dr. Stanton Peele takes questions from LPP followers. Today he tackles the concept of moderation, which LPP encourages with respect to drugs, alcohol, or any other involvement that a person may have formed an addictive relationship with.
But is there such a thing as an over-emphasis on moderation as an end-goal? Dr. Peele explains here.
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Sundays With Stories: Cannabis & Teens, Drug Sensationalism, & Hunter Biden Saved By Love
JAMA Pediatric affirms what Dr. Peele has been saying for fifty years (which prominent drug-reformers deny): “marijuana is as addictive as opioids.” Or is that... Opioids are only as addictive as marijuana?
How is this possible? What are the implications of this claim?
Peele and Rhoads also discuss the Derek Chauvin case, and whether the idea that there being fentanyl in Floyd's system is relevant
Demi Lovato: Breaking Free From The "RECOVERY" Narrative
California dreamer Demi Lovato joins the long list of people who don’t conform to the recovery narrative. Only she’s up front about it.
Demi Lovato’s intense substance-use history almost killed her. But Lovato is different: she recognizes that what almost killed her was the recovery narrative: “You’re doomed as an addict from birth; you can stave off destruction with absolute abstinence for as lon
What Does Addiction Have To Do With The Tragic Events In Atlanta? | Life Process Program
Dr. Stanton Peele and Zach Rhoads respond to news threads that link the recent Atlanta murders to sex addiction.
Does this claim make sense or is the "sex addiction" claim simply an insanity plea with no merit? Peele and Rhoads get into the subtleties on today's "Sundays With Stories"
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How Meghan Markle Overcame Depression WITHOUT Psychiatry, Drugs, or 800-numbers
Meghan Markel is being used as an example of how speaking openly about depression is invaluable in order to get treatment and avoid suicide.
Well, not so fast...
Here are some salient facts: America has the most depression treatment and the highest suicide rate (both much higher than in the U.K.) among economically advanced societies. Markel (a) didn’t get treatment, (b) worked through her s
The Breakfast Club's TASTELESS Interview With Carl Hart | Stanton's FIVE TIPS For Carl As He Promotes His Book
Dr. Carl Hart has faced rough seas promoting his new book. As helpers and theorists who have faced similar tempests, Stanton and Zach offer some helpful hints.
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Minisode | Q&A with Dr. Peele: "Is 'Sex Addiction' different from 'Love Addiction'?"
An audience member asks 'Is "Sex Addiction" different from "Love Addiction' and can the two concepts be used interchangeably? Stanton explores the differences between the two terms and illustrates a comparative parallel between different genres of 'drug addiction'.
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Youth, Addition, and a Failed Treatment Industry (Part 1 / 3) -- Madeleine Dean's Rehab Fantasy
Madeleine Dean: We admire you, but you’re thinking about America’s addiction problems is all wrong.
Dr. Peele and Zach explain to the Congresswoman how she is going in exactly the wrong direction in her addiction policies following on her son’s recovery in rehab.
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Is Sex Addiction Different From "Love Addiction"?
An audience member asks 'Is "Sex Addiction" different from "Love Addiction' and can the two concepts be used interchangeably?
Stanton explores the differences between the two terms and illustrates a comparative parallel between different genres of 'drug addiction'.
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Jordan Peterson's Messy Room | Benzodiazepines, 12 Rules For Life, Addiction | Sundays With Stories
Dr. Stanton Peele and Zach Rhoads discuss Jordan Peterson's work, his views about addiction, and how he handled his own addiction to benzodiazepines (with an understanding that Peterson makes a distinction between "addiction proper" and what he believes was his own "physical dependence"-- a distinction the two discuss in another video).
Peterson is an intelligent, compelling, and very famous psych
Dr. Carl Hart | Drug Use For GROWN-UPS | Life Process Program, Sundays With Stories
Dr. Carl Hart explains that the vast majority of people who use drugs do so with no problem. In fact, drugs -- yes, even so-called "hard drugs"-- offer more positive than negative experiences.
Dr. Hart is a professor (and former chair) of psychology and psychiatry at Columbia University. Today, he opens up to Zach Rhoads about his new book, "Drug Use For Grown-Ups", in which he's comes out of the
What Does It Mean to be "Trauma Informed"?
Dr. Stanton Peele and Zach Rhoads answer the following frequently asked question: Is LPP a “trauma informed program”?
They offer a definition of “trauma” in several contexts. Then they discuss differences between traumatic events and adverse conditions in life.
Peele and Rhoads also consider what it means to be trauma informed versus believing trauma is responsible for addictio
Hunter Biden, Pussy Riot, and Family Addiction Entanglements | LPP Podcast
Questions of family often appear in relation to addiction and drug issues.
As with all questions in these areas, discussion is misled by disease beliefs, which leave people muddled and mystified about how to proceed constructively. Nonetheless, basic human values often assert themselves, allowing people— especially young people— to free themselves and to display bravery.
Examples in the news
Ep 46: Shia Labeouf is LOVE SICK | With Dr. Stanton Peele
On today's episode, Dr. Stanton Peele and Zach Rhoads (of the Life Process Program) discuss current events in addiction and harm reduction. The key note: Shia Labeouf's Love Addiction!
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Shia Labeouf has made the news for his movies and even for his recovery from alcohol and drugs. Unfortunately, despite years of "programming" for his addiction issues, Labeouf's behavior is
ASK STANTON: "Why do people call addiction a disease? What is addiction REALLY?"
Stanton Peele answers questions from social media followers, listeners, and YouTube viewers.
Today, Zach Rhoads reads Stanton a question from a Facebook follower: "Why do people call addiction a disease, and what is addiction REALLY?"
Want to ask Stanton a question?? He will answer on video or on the podcast. You can reach us using any of the links below.
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Episode 45: Mikey G Ignores the "Addict" Identity in Favor of Life (Sundays With Stories Edition)
Today Zach Rhoads speaks with Michael Galipeau (AKA Mikey G) about his upbringing in a state-run institution, his years of homelessness, and his relationship (positive and negative) with illicit drug use.
As is par for the course here at "Sundays With Stories", Mikey G's "recovery story is NOT your standard Hollywood-infused story. He describes a traumatic past (which he's not bogged down by
Episode 44 | The Dax Shepard Relapse Story (Sundays With Stories Edition)
The actor, podcaster, and AA advocate Dax Shepard has decided to turn his sobriety count from 16 years all the way back to one day. This is the result of a recent decision to take narcotic pain killers off-script.
Dr. Stanton Peele and Zach Rhoads discuss why Dax's own personal development is being stymied by 12-step ideology, and why he either cannot OR refuses to acknowledge that fact.&nbs
Episode 43 (Sundays With Stories Edition): Jason Terrell's Natural Recovery Story
Today's episode is a "Sundays With Stories" edition and our guest today is a man named Jason Terrell.
Jason was kind (and brave) enough to spend time talking about his upbringing, his addiction history, his time in treatment (which actually bogged him down more than it helped), and how he ultimately overcame addiction by using his own best thinking!
All of this and more on episode 43!&
Episode 42 (Sundays With Stories 9): Peter Bogdanovich and Love Addiction
On episode 9, Stanton and Zach talk about film director Peter Bogdanovich and his history of love addiction. In fact, the two argue that love is the worst addiction of all!
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Zach and Stanton begin by discussing current events, including Oregon's recent push to decriminalize all drugs. The new policy is a welcome movement away from incarceration for drug possession. But the dev
Episode 41: LPP Coach Aaron Ferguson's Return From an Addicted and Traumatic Past
We have a truly remarkable LPP “Sundays With Stories” — Aaron’s story. Put simply, Aaron’s life has been . . . well, it might be rejected by Netflix as unbelievable. And it has left him firmly in the LPP camp. Just up front, Aaron is an outreach manager for a national opioid treatment provider. He combines his position on MAT with his non-disease, non-trauma-fixated LPP coaching. (More about this
Episode 40: Tom Horvath, SMART Recovery, Addiction, and the Limitations of the Disease Model
Not so long ago, I published a blog comparing and contrasting SMART Recovery with the Life Process Program.
Shortly after doing so, The president of SMART Recovery wrote to me and offered reflections on the piece. That made me a little nervous.... but he liked the blog. (WHEW!)
But he did have a bone to pick with me.... I wrote that SMART Recovery is an abstinence-based program and, evidentl
Episode 39: What Does Evidence-Based Treatment Tell Us?
In today’s episode of Sundays With Stories, Stanton and Zach discuss current events.
This week a New York Times article bemoaned the failure of addiction specialists to adopt a proven tool for treating drug addiction, “contingency management.” That is, paying meth, cocaine et al. users for abstinence.
That’s right: experienced, one might say addicted, “speed” (“crank”) users will desist drug use i
