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3/23/00 The character assassination issues boiling around the Dorismond case are troublesome, but they are not the the main issue, only ways of rationalizing the abhorrent behavior of the cops. The main issue is the drug war. The drug war is put above civil liberties and even human life throughout the country and the world. The demonization of drugs, drug addicts, and profiled potential drug dealers caused by the drug war makes cops hysterical and fearful. It also gives them power of life and death on the street. The drug war has destroyed my life as well by demonizing me, a totally productive doctor with a sparkling clean patient care record who also happens to be a recovering addict. The hysteria of the drug war is the main problem here. The drug war is wrong, inappropriate, and ineffective besides being deadly, and it is based on lies, lies just as bad a Giuliani's character assassination of Dorismond. 3/31/00 One Tough Plant by Peter Reuter, op-ed NY Times 3/31/00, makes a great argument against any possibility of effectively curtailing the supply of drugs to America. This truth has been known for a long time already. Similar rationale for ending other parts of the drug war are likewise true but ignored. The final sentence, "In the end, the only way to win the drug war will be to change the behavior of Americans, not of farmers in the third world," is also true and obvious. However, we have failed to accomplish this goal as well and for a good reason: our paradigm (understanding) of human drug use is wrong. Drug use is not externally controllable or changeable by its very neurobiological mechanisms. Under the current psychological/superstitious paradigm of drug use and addiction which incorrectly assumes external controllability of conscious choice and decision-making, there will never be a change in human drug behavior. For the people who have a problem with drugs, including alcohol and nicotine, their use is, for the most part, unconsciously motivated and not externally controllable. Until we take the actual paradigm of drug use and its internal and unconscious neurobiological motivation seriously and use it, we will never see any changes in how humans deal not only with drug addictions, but with behavioral addictions (not considered true addictions by the high priests of addictionology under the current paradigm) as well. Garbage (wrong paradigm) in - Garbage (wrong policies) out. 4/1/00 Two articles in today's paper, The He Hormone, and Adventures in Ritalin, are all heat and no light. We already know ritalin and testosterone are addicting drugs. The fact that psychiatrists and other "doctors" still prescribe them and other addicting drugs willy-nilly is a concern but mainly highlights that doctors are more interested in controlling patients than helping them. These articles from drug addicts who have no understanding of the reasons they are addicted nor what addiction means to them as individuals, add nothing to our understanding of addiction. One "stopped," while the other justified his continued (addiction) use. They intellectualized their stories because they have no idea of the particular neurobiology behind their addictions. It's nice that you give space to pieces about addiction, but until you give some space to the actual unconscious neurobiological forces in certain people that inexorably leads to addiction of whatever drug or behavior, we will continue to watch people get addicted and messed up in countless incomprehensible ways; incomprehensible because the current psychological paradigm of addiction has no real way to comprehend addiction. We blab away and shrug our collective shoulders while ignoring and censoring the truth behind addictions, Hypoism, a paradigm that will make all this nonsense comprehensible if only we will consider it. Let there be light. 4/2/00 Both the authors and the reviewer of the book, Rape, get the cause of rape wrong. Rape is part of sex ADDICTION, but not how we currently view addiction. The Hypoism hypothesis of addiction easily explains rape without the need to turn it into an adaptive behavior, although the allelic genes required to produce Hypoism in an individual clearly have survived natural selection because of their adaptive qualities. Behaviors are not genetic nor are they programed by evolutionary processes. Cognitive mechanisms are inherited, however. Hypoism is about a cognitive mechanism existing in all people that is biologically perverted by low activity genetic alleles and result in addictive behaviors. Only this mechanism explains why all people enjoy certain drugs and behaviors (including sex) but only some people, those with critically low activity alleles of certain reinforcing genes, get addicted and act out those addictions. Rape is to sex addiction as skid row and cirrhosis is to alcohol addiction as overdose is to heroin addiction as spousal abuse is to people addiction as racial murder is to xenophobia addiction. All addictions are rooted in instincts and chemical substitutes for the neurotransmitters that reinforce these instincts and only occur in people with genetically programed critically low activity of the cognitive mechanism responsible for regulating the use of these instincts. This Hypoism hypothesis answers all questions the reviewer couldn't answer from the book, Rape, as well as all questions he might have about why some people get addicted and act out and others just enjoy these same chemicals and behaviors without getting addicted and progressing to the extremes of these behaviors. I do agree with the reviewer that Rape is a misuse of evolutionary psychology and the concept of adaptive behavior. 4/6/00 Hedda Nussbaum Cancels Speech Canceled After Protest at College, NY Times (4/6/00), startled me. I didn't know she was speaking about spousal and child abuse. I agree with the protesters who opposed her speaking, but for another reason: her speech will not help but will actually hurt other women and children by perpetuating her mistaken beliefs about what happened to her and her resultant abhorrent and lethal behavior. Spousal abuse is a result of people addiction. Both participants are addicted to each other and as such are equally responsible for the consequences of their addiction. The current incorrect concept of spousal abuse makes one party the perp and the other the innocent victim. She willingly has taken the role of the victim. Any addict would. As long as we see spousal abuse in this incorrect format we will never find relief from this common manifestation of the most common addiction. People addiction is misconstrued by "experts" the same way they misunderstand all other addictions. Sad but true, this misunderstanding, regardless of how many speeches are made about it, perpetuates exactly what we all want to disappear, much like current education and prevention programs for drug "abuse." This obvious reality holds for all addictions under the current addiction paradigm. Isn't this clear yet? 4/11/00 Saving Columbia, OP-ED NY Times 4/11/00, is delusional and just another ignorant opinion. Where is Mr. Friedman's research that backs his opinion that supporting Columbia's drug war will resolve the problem? He's got it backwards. Prohibition and interdiction only make everything worse and more deadly. There is no historical basis for prohibition doing anything but magnifying what it tries to stop. A different approach to the drug problem is necessary, one based on understanding and acceptance of human nature rather than attempts to control it. The different approach needs to start here, in America, with the correct drug use paradigm and using its implications to change policies from one based on irrational fear and control to one based on knowledgeable respect of drugs and understanding of how the human brain actually works. Columbia and drug cartels are irrelevant to our drug problem and only become relevant when we attempt prohibition, a policy that only makes supply more lucrative. 4/17/00 The article about mandated drug testing in Texas shows how easy it is for an entire community to dump their constitutional rights when it's expedient based on irrational fear and xenophobic beliefs. This only happens when mass hysteria, the kind that the current drug paradigm has instilled in the people of our country concerning drugs and addicts, runs rampant. I fear that the Supreme Court will uphold the drug testing policy for the same reason. The only way to provide a sane drug policy that doesn't pander to instinctive fear and hate is to introduce the country to the real and realistic neurobiological paradigm of human drug use, Hypoism. Let the people know about it and come to their own conclusions. 4/18/00 Growing Up on a Ritalin-Prozac Cocktail: Is This What Ricky Needs? NY Times, 4/18/00, made me sick and again confirmed that shrinks and "clinical psychologists" are not only ignorant about what they claim is their expertise but dangerous as well despite the caring tones expressed of the article. Besides "Ricky" being misdiagnosed and mistreated as a child and put on drugs by his doctors at the behest of his parents, his current shrink, Dr. Markel, puts the responsibility to "wean off" the child from the drugs on the parents too. Wow! The doctors are negligent and irresponsible. My guess is that Ricky is addicted to the drugs. He needs detox, rehab, and recovery from his physician-induced addiction. Then he can start over as a recovering human being and learn how to live drug free like the rest of us recovering addicts. Recovery will deal with Ricky's behavior much better than any shrink can. I appreciate Dr. Markel's honesty, but he's negligent nonetheless. These "doctors" don't have a clue about what they're doing despite their claims of expertise. Robyn Dawes' House of Cards clarified this issue years ago. The public needs to realize this because the "experts" will never admit it. 4/21/00 Your Cancer Isn't Your Fault By JEROME GROOPMAN, NY Times, 4/21/00, brings to our consciousness the extreme importance of and need for valid scientific method in the understanding of human behavior and disease. Superstition and ignorant belief framed as knowledge and fact abound in much of today's pseudoscience held to be real. Nowhere is this the case as it is in the field addictions. The current mistaken beliefs about addictions held to be real by the experts and believed willy-nilly by the masses has caused most of the problems associated with addictions in the world. Only when the same kind of valid studies are performed in addictions as in colon cancer etiology or prevention will we develop a realistic paradigm for a field that is currently blaming its victims much like the doctor in the article blames himself for his cancer. |
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You can take the addiction out of the hypoic, but you can't take the Hypoism out of the addict.
