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Conversations with the promulgators of the Addiction Myth.

A Conversation with UCLA Drug Policy Expert Mark Kleiman

Mark Kleiman is a professor at UCLA and an expert on Public Policy specializing in drugs.  AddictionMyth recently sat down with the retarded asshead for an intimate interview conducted by email.

AddictionMyth:

Hi I saw you said that Volkow will win a Nobel Prize for curing addiction. I’m sure you don’t believe that.  Continue reading A Conversation with UCLA Drug Policy Expert Mark Kleiman

A Conversation with the Long Island Serial Killer

Comments from You Are So Brainwashed It’s Funny:

  • John says:
    March 19, 2014 at 3:51 pm

    Did you say hard hitting journalism?
    That’s hilarious! Wait wait hard to breathe aah.
    Okay I have one too I’m a Physics teacher and by the all the laws of physics and your previous replies to young girls you sir are a huge dickbag. That’s obvious journalism 101. What a child you are talking like that to women. Reply back about Satan or God or not a disease or whatever your little dick brain thinks.
    Oh and what is your name or do you enjoy hiding and talking down to women?
    Oh and good luck trying to take on the AA fellowship that outta be fun.

Continue reading A Conversation with the Long Island Serial Killer

A Conversation with Cathryn Kemp – Adventurer and Author of “Painkiller Addict”

Cathryn Kemp is a world adventurer and successful travel writer.  She has several Lonely Planet books to her credit.  I was held at gunpoint on a Russian train; almost drowned in the Mekong.  I was involved in a botched kidnap attempt by a cab driver in Riga.  But the adventures didn’t stop there.  She was also a drug addict who was on the highest dose of fentanyl ever recorded at the center where she finally detoxed.

Addiction Myth sat down with Ms Kemp for this intimate interview conducted by email. Continue reading A Conversation with Cathryn Kemp – Adventurer and Author of “Painkiller Addict”

A conversation with addictions expert/rehab entrepreneur Dr. Drew Pinsky

Dr. Drew Pinsky (known familiarly as Dr. Drew) is the pre-eminent expert on drug addiction and alcoholism in this country.  He is most famous for his TV show Celebrity Rehab, whose patients boast a relapse rate below 80%, and a death rate below 15%.

AddictionMyth sat down recently with Dr. Drew for an intimate conversation conducted entirely by mental telepathy. Continue reading A conversation with addictions expert/rehab entrepreneur Dr. Drew Pinsky

A conversation with Columbia neuroscientist Dr. Carl Hart

Dr. Hart is a tenured professor at Columbia and expert on the science and pharmacology of illicit drugs.  He grew up in the Miami ghetto where he experienced first hand the scourge of drug addiction and the impact on his community.  He entered neuroscience with the goal of curing addiction, but he discovered during the course of his career, much to his surprise, that in fact drugs had little to do with the problems that he saw.  In fact, it was the draconian drug laws and heavy handed enforcement that created misery and injustice for members of his family and community, much moreso than the drugs themselves — which he now claims, based on his years of research, are not really so dangerous after all. Continue reading A conversation with Columbia neuroscientist Dr. Carl Hart

An Interview with Philosopher/Author/Alcoholic Clancy Martin

Clancy Martin is the Chair of the Philosophy Department at University of Missouri.  He is an expert in Nietzsche.  His PhD dissertation was on the philosophy of lying.  He is also a best selling author of How to Sell (2009), a semi-autobiographical account of a young man in the jewelry business who engages in various unethical methods to make money.   “First lie to yourself about what grade the diamond is; then you can sincerely tell your customer ‘the truth’ about what it’s worth.”  He drinks to quash the feelings of guilt caused by his peccadilloes.  And he (the author) is also an alcoholic. Continue reading An Interview with Philosopher/Author/Alcoholic Clancy Martin

A conversation with author/alcoholic Paul Carr

Paul Carr is a young writer and adventurer.  He is also an alcoholic.  He decided to get sober a few years ago.  However, he didn’t exactly like what AA had to offer, so he wrote his own 12 steps.  They are outlined in this Wall Street Journal article: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304692804577281413725296538.html

AddictionMyth sat down with Mr. Carr for this intimate interview conducted by email. Continue reading A conversation with author/alcoholic Paul Carr

A conversation with David Sheff, author of “Clean”

David Sheff is the best selling author of Beautiful Boy, the account of his son’s struggle with drug addiction.  Recently, he came out with a new book, Clean: Overcoming Addiction and Ending America’s Greatest Tragedy, which describes the state of the treatment industry, and what a person has to do to get clean from drugs.

AddictionMyth recently sat down with Mr. Sheff for an intimate interview via email. Continue reading A conversation with David Sheff, author of “Clean”

A Conversation with UCLA Addictions Expert Dr. Adi Jaffe

Dr. Adi Jaffe is an up-and-coming expert on addiction (drugs, sex, gambling, you-name-it).   As an expert on addiction, he knows more than most: he has first-hand experience.  He suffered for many years from a raging meth addiction, which he eventually had to support the only way he could – by selling drugs and skimming off some for himself.  He was arrested several times, risking everything including his life and freedom, just for a hit of meth.  After many desperate attempts to stop, he realized that he would “end up either dead or in jail or homeless”.  He checked himself into rehab and finally broke the addiction.  It was not easy!  Amazingly, he pulled the pieces of his life back together.  He went back to school, and did extremely well.  Using skills developed during his successful drug business, he did a ‘full court press’ on UCLA and was admitted to their prestigious PhD program.  UCLA is the epicenter of the scientific study of  “Addiction Research”, and Dr. Jaffe is now a scion of the emerging field.    http://www.uclaisap.org/  He also maintains his own web site All About Addiction in which he writes a blog and promotes rehabs that have unfilled beds. Continue reading A Conversation with UCLA Addictions Expert Dr. Adi Jaffe