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126      <h1>Stanton&rsquo;s 50-Year Addiction Report  Card</h1>
127      <p><img src="../images/stanton/stanton_2014_300.jpg" alt="Stanton Peele" width="300" height="400" border="1" class="PictureRight">Stanton began working on <em><a href="../aab/index.html#laa">Love and  Addiction</a></em> (which was published in 1975) in 1970.  In these fifty  years he has predicted a remarkable number of addiction trends. By  now it is clear that the way in which Stanton has reframed addiction  for the past four decades &ndash; sometimes facing extreme opposition &ndash;  has been prescient.  Addiction is not a consequence of taking drugs  and drinking.  Rather, it arises from the way in which these and  other compelling activities fit into people&rsquo;s lives and meanings.   We are only now as a society beginning to come to grips with his  insights in the following ways:</p>
128      <p><strong>1.  Addiction</strong>. <em><a href="../lib/laa.html">Love and  Addiction</a></em>, of course, said addiction is not limited to drugs and  alcohol.  Stanton&rsquo;s seminal work previewed, first, the use of  addiction for other-than-illegal drugs.  At the time, the 1964  Surgeon General&rsquo;s Report had declared smoking was NOT addictive,  which was only reversed in 1988.  In 2010, the work group for the new  psychiatric diagnostic manual (DSM-5) scheduled to appear in 2013  declared gambling may be addictive, forty years after Stanton did so. This will change the official <a href="../lib/meaning.html">meaning of addiction forever</a>.</p>
129      <p><strong>2.  Genetics.</strong> Early on, Stanton  pointed out that the idea that genes can explain addiction &ndash; as  well as other maladies and behavioral traits &ndash; <a href="../lib/truth_2.html">was misbegotten</a>.   The decade-long $3 billion human genome project has revised our view  of the genome &ndash; although public opinion has still not caught up  with its discoveries.  Few genes have been identified with illnesses,  none with any mental illnesses or personality traits. After a decade,  it is clear the genome is NOT a collection of genes, but rather a  string of genetic material, the purpose of the overwhelming majority  of which is mysterious, affected by environmental stimuli, often  randomly, and serves the function of impacting the development of  other DNA and genes rather than creating specific traits.  Stanton  quickly pointed out that the early claim, in 1990, to have found an  alcoholic gene was nonsense.</p>
130      <p><strong>3.  Alcoholism</strong>.  The National  Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism made a starling declaration  at its Web site in 2010: &ldquo;<a href="http://www.spectrum.niaaa.nih.gov/features/alcoholism.aspx" target="_blank">Alcoholism isn&rsquo;t what it used to be</a>.&rdquo;   The agency based this on the repeated finding &ndash; <a href="../lib/truth_1.html">which Stanton has  pointed out for decades</a> &ndash; that most people overcome alcoholism  without treatment and do so without ceasing drinking.  For the most  part, alcoholism (like drug addiction) is connected with specific  periods of people&rsquo;s lives, and the large majority move beyond this  point as they mature and experience other developments in their  lives.</p>
131      <p><strong>4.  Treatment.</strong> In 2010, the  deputy drug tsar for demand reduction, Tom McClellan, declared of  addiction treatment: &ldquo;it is largely, at least today, about  lifestyle management, that's what treatment really is. Just like any  other business, we've got to come up with an engaging way of selling  a new and healthier lifestyle.&rdquo;  McClellan &ndash; a University of  Pennsylvania psychiatry professor &ndash; has been a leading advocate of  the idea that addiction is a disease.  Stanton has been advocating  values-, motivation-, and skills-oriented treatment for decades in  books like <em><a href="../lib/truth.html">The Truth About Addiction and Recovery</a></em> and <em><a href="../7tools/index.html">7  Tools to Beat Addiction</a></em>, which he has combined in his Life  Process Program.</p>
132      <p><strong>5. Natural recovery.</strong> The NIAAA's announcement that &quot;alcoholism isn't what it used to be&quot; identifies specifically what proportion of recovery occurs without treatment - <a href="../blog/101007.html">three quarters</a> - and that perhaps one-half of the quarter of recovered people who are treated entered either 12-step rehab or AA.  The realization that most recovery from alcoholism occurs outside treatment - the same is true for smoking, drug addiction, etc. - is still almost impossible for Americans to accept, as the opposite misinformation continues to be marketed by the NIDA and private treatment industry.</p>
133      <p><strong>6.  Alcohol control policy.</strong> For  some decades, <a href="../lib/evil.html">Stanton has debated</a> with leading alcohol policy  advocates who have argued that making alcohol harder to purchase  would lead to fewer alcohol problems.  Instead, Stanton&rsquo;s view is  that a culture&rsquo;s attitudes towards alcohol are more important in  determining drinking outcomes, and that demonizing alcohol has more  harmful effects than benefits.  In 2010, research made clear that  lowering alcohol prices in Scandinavia had NOT created proportionally  more problems.  Instead, Danes, Swedes, and Finns reported fewer  drinking problems since alcohol prices and taxes had been lowered,  provoking a crisis in epidemiology and alcohol policy theory.</p>
134      <p><strong>7.  Cultural drinking patterns.</strong> Systematic cross-cultural research has now found that Southern  European cultures, where alcohol is given to children at home, show  decisively fewer alcohol problems among both teens and adults.  While  popular mythology maintains that adolescents all across Europe now  regularly get drunk, in fact fewer Southern than Northern European  teens do.  This is not a theoretical argument &ndash; Italy and other  Southern European countries have far lower rates of alcohol-related  deaths, since people there are so much less likely to binge drink and  suffer fatal accidents.  In <em><a href="../bookstore/proof.html">Addiction-Proof Your Child</a></em>,  Stanton presented the cutting edge in how to introduce children to  substances and provided a methodology for resisting addiction in the  21st Century.</p>
135      <p><strong>8.  Beneficial drinking</strong>. The United States, and other English-speaking and Scandinavian nations, have a love-hate relationship with alcohol.  Most people consume alcohol; many Americans deeply fear and distrust it. As a result, these countries &ndash; and the United States in particular &ndash; have found it difficult to acknowledge evidence that drinking conveys benefits.  As in other areas of addiction, Stanton has been fighting this inbred resistance for decades. He was one of the first to note that moderate drinkers <a href="../lib/publhlth.html">have less heart disease &ndash; and thus live longer</a>. In 2010, the U.S. Dietary Guidelines noted for the first time that: &quot;results from large epidemiological studies consistently show that alcohol has a favorable association with total mortality especially among middle age and older men and women.&quot; The 2010 Guidelines also begin to build on Stanton's <a href="../lib/exploring.html">finding a decade earlier</a> that moderate drinkers maintain better cognitive functioning with age, to wit: &quot;Moderate evidence suggests that compared to non-drinkers, individuals who drink moderately have a slower cognitive decline with age.&quot;</p>
136      <p><strong>9. Stanton Peele and Natural Recovery</strong>. Stanton has been emphasizing the prevalence of natural recovery from addiction since his 1975 <em>Love and Addiction</em>, and ever since.<a href="../lib/naturalrecovery.html"><br>
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138      <p>In all of these areas, Stanton has  honed in on the truths of addiction, drinking and alcoholism, treatment, and policy in ways that have been proven true with time.</p>
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