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• Posted Does Addiction Have To Destroy Love? to Lance Dodes, M.D.
  Not if you understand the psychology of addiction. Phyllis and Peter had been married a few years when he started hiding "nip" bottles of vodka in the house. After Phyllis discovered them he lied, saying he had stopped drinking and...
• Posted Are People With Addictions Any "Sicker" Than Anyone Else? to Lance Dodes, M.D.
  Understanding the psychology of addiction provides the answer.Published on January 17, 2011 by Lance Dodes, M.D. in The Heart of AddictionFor the past few thousand years people have thought "addicts" were self-indulgent hedonists, lacking in the self-control present in healthy...
• Posted The Myth of "Addictiveness" to Lance Dodes, M.D.
  In addiction, things are often not what they seem.How common it is for people to say that things are "addictive"! Scratch lottery tickets, pornographic videos, foods, even exercising have all been said to be addictive. But none of them is....
• Posted Treating Addiction a New Way to Lance Dodes, M.D.
  Understanding the psychology of addiction makes it controllable. In my last post I briefly summarized the psychology of addiction. I said that treatment of addiction has had generally poor results because its very nature, its psychology, has not been well...
• Posted The Psychology of Addiction to Lance Dodes, M.D.
  How psychology drives addictive behavior. Marion put down the phone after hearing her husband's command to prepare dinner for him and a group of business guests that evening. Now she would have to shop and prepare instead of go to...
• Posted Blowing Up A Myth to Lance Dodes, M.D.
  Understanding the true nature of addiction.Addiction has been poorly understood for a long time, and recently the problem has become worse with the popularization of the notion that addiction is a "brain disease."Supporters of this fallacy point to the fact...
• Posted Breaking Addiction to Lance Dodes, M.D.
  Let's face it; addiction treatment has not been very successful. But there is a clear reason for this: we haven't understood how it works. Once you do understand it, though, there are some critical steps you can take to break...
• Posted The Myth of Impulsiveness in Addiction to Lance Dodes, M.D.
  Addictions are the opposite of impulsive.Published on May 26, 2011 by Lance Dodes, M.D. in The Heart of Addiction The often-stated notion that people with addictions are "impulsive" goes right along with the myth that addiction is pleasure-seeking or the...
• Posted Breaking Addiction: It Can Be Done, Once You Know How to Lance Dodes, M.D.
  Let's face it; addiction treatment has not been very successful. But there is a clear reason for this: we haven't understood how it works. Once you do understand it, though, there are some critical steps you can take to break...