As established in this and other preceding posts, the fabricated condition (or “disease” or “disorder”) of “addiction” is a made-up fiction that represents no real condition; was never supported by evidence; drains and diverts public healthcare funds and resources away from longstanding, evidence-based psychotherapies to treat the forms of inner distress driving compulsive substance use. That fiction helps fuel worsening, lethal public health epidemics – yet crucially protects and maintains harm-predicting entitlement programs including “rehab”, “addiction treatment” and “addiction medicine”.

Addressing increasingly lethal substance use epidemics requires shutting down the criminal scams misusing public funds and then re-allocating resources to the longstanding evidence-based, effective behavioral health and psychosocial therapies and supports, especially and increasingly focusing on indicated prevention strategies.

Full post to come.