This is a promotional site for a book about addiction that rejects the notion that addiction is a disease while also differing from the approach taken by 12-step programs. The author, Stanton Peele, is well-known in addiction circles having published twelve books on addition, his first in 1975.

Peele’s approach is an example of the range of programs that have found success when dealing with addiction. From a policy perspective, the question is whether we should encourage diverse approaches that address a variety of situations or whether, as some proponents of the addiction-as-brain-disease seem to maintain, efforts should be focused narrowly on Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) and purely physical treatments.