Ep. 1099 Myths of the Addiction Industry

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Tom Woods

Politics, Government, News

4.8 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Steven Slate, who once struggled with drug use himself, joins me to talk about whether what we think we know about addiction is really true. Is addiction a "disease"? Is "treatment" the only way to deal with it? Are people who believe that don't need treatment "in denial"? Is moderate consumption always off limits for people who have had problems?

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0:00.0	The Tom Woods Show, episode 1099.
0:03.6	Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.
0:08.2	Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show.
0:14.4	Folks, in 2018, more people than ever are going to be starting up a side hustle online.
0:19.8	I know how to do this, and I'll show you
0:22.0	step by step exactly what I do in my free ebook, Five Paths to an Online Income. Grab it over at
0:28.9	paths to income.com. Hi, everybody. Tom Woods here. Stephen Slate is with us today. Stephen just
0:36.0	joined my supporting listeners
0:37.6	Facebook group. You can get in there
0:39.3	over at SupportingLessner's.com.
0:41.6	And he is the author of
0:43.3	The Freedom Model for Addictions,
0:46.3	Escape the Treatment and Recovery
0:48.7	Trap. Of course, I'll be linking to that book at
0:51.0	tomwoods.com slash 10099,
0:53.8	but it is Stephen's conviction that
0:57.2	the addiction and recovery industry, if we might call it that, is not quite getting exactly
1:04.0	what accounts for addiction and what is the best way to treat it.
1:09.0	And so there are a lot of concepts that we take for granted when we talk
1:13.0	about addiction and recovery that he thinks are actually quite debatable and are by no means
1:18.1	settled. And in fact, the preponderance of the evidence may even be against them. So it's a new and
1:24.3	different perspective and very much worth listening to. So the book is the freedom model for
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