Stanton Peele
Contributor
American Addiction Centers (AAC)
American Addiction Centers (AAC) is the leading provider for addiction treatment across the U.S. specializing in evidence-based treatment and mental health care.
At AAC, we aim to treat the whole person, which includes those with co-occurring mental health disorders, physical illnesses, or social issues related to addiction treatment.
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Stanton Peele, Ph.D., J.D., is the author (with Ilse Thompson) of Recover! An Empowering Program to Help You Stop Thinking Like an Addict and Reclaim Your Life. He was clinical director and designer of the Life Process Program for a residential rehab that is now an on-line program. His book, Addiction-Proof Your Child is a model for the emerging area of harm reduction in addiction prevention.
Stanton has been innovating in the addiction field since writing Love and Addiction with Archie Brodsky, including addiction to activities and experiences other than substances, harm reduction, skills and coping approaches to recovery, values and purpose as antidotes to addiction, and mindfulness/self-acceptance (loving kindness) precepts shared with Buddhism. He has published 250 articles and 12 books, and has won career awards from the Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies and Drug Policy Alliance.
Credentials
- Ph.D.
- J.D.; Licensed Psychologist
- Attorney
Authored (28 Posts)
- Helping People with Addiction Does Not Require “Putting Them Away”
- When Love is Addictive...
- What Is the Purpose of an Intervention?
- How I Prevented My Kids from Being Alcoholics
- Natural Recovery in “Room”
- Two Sick Men
- Miley Cyrus: Model for Youthful Drug Use?
- Love and Addiction, Part II: Amy Winehouse
- Which Is the Worst Addiction?
- Baltimore: Epicenter of the Heroin Addiction Cauldron?
- A Brief History of Disease Theory and Harm Reduction Treatment in the US
- Addiction Prevention: Can Your Child Avoid Addiction?
- When and How Do You Help Crazy People?
- How to Talk to Crazy People II: The Continuum from Normal to Crazy
- How to Talk to Crazy People
- The Addiction Therapist’s Guide to the 21st Century
- Overcoming Trauma: Lessons from the Football Field
- What Was the Biggest Addiction Moment of 2014?
- Deconstructing Psychopathy in Murder Podcast 'Serial'
- Do We Export Addiction?
- Don't Blame Trauma for Your Addiction Problems
- Is the Bipolar Revolution Causing the Depression Epidemic?
- Is Janay Rice Mentally Ill?
- How Useful is Trauma as a Therapy Tool?
- Robin Williams and The Cultural Delusion We Are Conquering Mental Illness
- 7 Ways to Prove People Aren't Born Addicts
- Profile of a Heroin Scare
- Addiction Treatment is Changing
American Addiction Centers (AAC)
American Addiction Centers (AAC) is the leading provider for addiction treatment across the U.S. specializing in evidence-based treatment and mental health care.
At AAC, we aim to treat the whole person, which includes those with co-occurring mental health disorders, physical illnesses, or social issues related to addiction treatment.