Stanton Peele

youtu.be/QJYLt9dDcOs?si=kQ2-… Stanton and Zach discuss the meaning of harm reduction (a) with reference to MOUD, (b) in terms of its essential meaning, (c) with reference to America’s greatest popularizer of HR, our old friend Maia Szalavitz, with whom we (I) essentially disagree.

And now for something completely new: Stanton interviews Chris Evert (not actually CE, but Stanton with his hat off). He asks @her@ about her internal life and the history, present and future of women’s tennis (Coco Gauff, that’s you). youtu.be/e9KJe18qzL4?si=yBSU…

“If we’re not going to pay our service members, next time we’re threatened call a crackhead,” Garrett Graves, Louisiana Congressman

Under normal life circumstances people are usually remarkably resilient. Our public health and psychiatric innovations have drastically reduced our resilience.

nytimes.com/2023/09/26/us/po…? Biden has no plans to rein in Commander — let alone to distance the family from him due to his behavior. Sort of like Hunter?

The only antidotes for human despair and aloneness are contact, care and community — along with the human spirit. Modern psychiatry destroyed all of these — with predictable results — and it brags about doing so.

consequence.net/2023/09/keit… Keith Richards (79) redefining “clean” and “straight”: “The cigarettes I gave up in 2019,” The Rolling Stones guitarist shared. “I haven’t touched them since. I gave up heroin in 1978. I gave up cocaine in 2006. I still like a drink occasionally.

A sober woman commented, “I never met someone who gave up the sauce that regrets it.” If no one regretted quitting drinking, then why do an infinite number return to it? When Elaine Stritch returned to drinking an afternoon cocktail she was lambasted (lnkd.in/exxAS3ix)

medpagetoday.com/meetingcove… Loneliness is a health condition! The cure? Place people in a virtual reality environment (give them social anxiety drugs first) to make them believe they have real friends and communities. It’s perfect: There’s no arguing and any danger of rejection!

The myth of OD deaths: “The wave of fatal drug overdoses is not driven by people accidentally taking cocaine and meth laced with fentanyl. “The surge in Americans dying after using fentanyl and stimulant drugs is caused by people purposefully mixing the drugs for a stronger hit.”

mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-n… Russell Brand, Mr. Recovery "I was a 20-year-old girl but Russell made millions doing a stand-up routine about it and that was very painful. I didn't know how to process it and I turned to drink and drugs.” But then he paid for her rehab! Mr. Recovery.

Russell Brand, recovery guru. “He is completely crazy and a bit of a vile predator,” Minogue, then 34, told the Mirror in a 2006 interview that resurfaced after the latest allegations. “I certainly don’t think he has cured his sex addiction. He wouldn’t take no for an answer.”

The Bookseller reported that Mr. Brand’s publisher, Bluebird, was pausing its work with the comedian. Bluebird had been scheduled to publish “Recovery: The Workbook,” a guide to overcoming addictions, in Dec.

lifeprocessprogram.com/recov…. America: Recovery Nation. As goes the recovery movement, so goes America.

filtermag.org/national-recov… The large majority of those who have confronted SUDs and who aren’t “in recovery” are not alcoholics and addicts in denial. But we never hear from them. Now April Smith tells the tale of the heretofore silent recovered majority.

filtermag.org/national-recov…. Natural recovery is the process by which the majority of people with SUD recover, with no treatment. Most of us are just moving on—and perceptions that we can’t do so are stigmatizing. This assumption feeds into the narrative that rehab “fixes” people.

lifeprocessprogram.com/dysle… Cher (age 77, same age as me) quoted on her youthfulness in AARP newsletter. “When do you start to feel old? This is ridiculous.”

How Zach deals with what many people (like Maureen Dowd) describe as an apocalypse of adolescent girls’ and college women’s mental health issues. youtu.be/A67GbhUb1Fw?si=FR03…

My epitaph (courtesy Carl Asick, Counselor Gaudenzia Integrity House, Harrisburg): Stanton-youve been both a curse and a blessing. You were like an oasis for me but that oasis can feel isolating in a world where folks ate predominantly in recovery and follow the 12 steps.