How Do I Resist Cravings? Isn’t Addiction Genetic? Can I Really Moderate? Be Patient Chapter 4: Why Do I Keep Doing This? Why Do I Prefer It? Some Primary Reasons Behind a Preference for Intoxication The Secondary Fortifying Reasons Behind a Strong Preference for Intoxication The Simplest Explanation Is the Most Accurate Explanation Chapter 5: Causes vs. Reasons The “Causes of Addiction” Probabilities Mind Matters Focus on Reasons, Not Causes Chapter 6: Learned Connections What Are Learned Connections? How Beliefs Form and Why They Are Hard to Challenge The Hopi Some Evidence to Consider But What About My Specific Problem? What You Really Need to Know We Aren’t Diminishing or Dismissing Your Problems The Three Building Blocks of Freedom Chapter 7: The Positive Drive Principle All Choices Are Made in Pursuit of Happiness Costly Behaviors Are a Pursuit of Happiness Too Happier Options Outcomes Don’t Reverse Motives There’s One Direction of Motivation: Toward Happiness Happiness Is Subjective and a Mixed Bag Why Is Recognizing the Pursuit of Happiness So Important? Fear Alone Isn’t Enough What to Remember Chapter 8: The Addict/Alcoholic Self-Image Everything Changes Once You See Yourself as Addicted Reality, Interpretations, and Feelings Self-Image Matters Chapter 9: Learning the Addict Self-Image The Playground Effect Deviance, Shame, Shoulds, and Justification Incentivized Helplessness Learning Addiction From Culture The Myth of Addictive Drugs Overcomplicating the Problem Learning Helplessness Through False Failures Those Tempting “Underlying Causes” You Can Break Out of the Addict Role Chapter 10: Constructive Self-Images You Can Change Your Self-Image With Knowledge Changing Learned Connections You Have a Choice Chapter 11: Mental Autonomy and Free Will Do You Agree? Shedding the Addict/Alcoholic Self-Image Chapter 12: Leaving the Cage of Recovery Living Like a Caged Lion Living Free Chapter 13: Success Success Is Knowing That You Are Free and Happily Choosing What You See As Best For You What If You Approached the Decision Without Shame? It’s Your Choice to Make, and Here’s Why It Matters You Are Free to Rethink the Benefits of Continued Substance Use You Are Free to Rethink the Benefits of Reducing or Quitting Substance Use You Are Free to Shift Your Focus From Costs to Benefits Moving Forward Chapter 14: Reclaiming Your Freedom and Happiness You Are What You Think Identical Thoughts = Identical Feelings and Behaviors Choose a New Self-Image Direct Preference Change Chapter 15: Motivators vs. Deterrents You Don’t “Have to” Quit Coercion and Ultimatums Shame and Shoulds Holding Onto Powerlessness Starting Off on the Right Foot Categorical Thinking: Good and Bad Substances Categorical Thinking: Priorities Everything Has a Price Chapter 16: Forging a Lasting Preference Change What Is a Preference? Multiple Options The Problem With Replacement Don’t Make Your Change Unnecessarily Conditional Unhappiness Isn’t a Cause of Heavy Substance Use The Preference Rut Chapter 17: Questioning Drug Effects You Can’t Need What Doesn’t Help You Placebo Effect and Active Placebos The Perceived Effects “Caused” by Identical Substances The Glaring Contradictions Chapter 18: The Illusion of Emotional Relief Drugs and Alcohol Can’t Think for You Constructing the Illusion The Power of Distraction Bandaging—A Vicious Cycle Reprieves What Applies to Stress Applies to Other Emotions Too Chapter 19: Lowered Inhibitions and the License to Misbehave Can the Same Substance Create Opposite Effects? The Perceived Effects “Caused” by Identical Substances The Origin of the License to Misbehave The History of the License to Misbehave The Illusory Benefits of Lowered Inhibitions Chapter 20: Pleasure Pleasurable Things Attributing Pleasure to Substances The Not-So-Simple Pleasure Center Substances Are Subjectively Enjoyed Chapter 21: The Benefits of Adjusted Substance Use Adjusted Substance Use—A New Choice The Relative Benefits of Adjusted Substance Use The Freedom Model Is Not Harm Reduction Reframing Costs to The Freedom Model Perspective of Benefits Chapter 22: The Hidden Costs Benefits of Substance Use You’re Not Stuck Chapter 23: A Happier Vision Weighing Your Options The Benefits of Substance Use Revisited The Benefits of Adjusted Substance Use or Abstinence Vision Pitfalls of Goal Setting Moving Forward Appendix A The Myth of Loss of Control You Can’t Regain What Was Never Lost What Does “Out of Control” Mean? Appendix B The Brain Disease Model of Addiction The Emotional Rhetoric The Neuroscience Explanation Appendix C Addiction Isn’t Chronic Appendix D Heroin and the Myth of “Addictiveness” The Heroin Mythology The Truth of Heroin The Irresistible High Moderate Opiate Users Why We Don’t Hear About Moderate Users? Moderate Use Does Not Inevitably Progress to “Addiction” Can Moderate Users Inject? Can An “Addict” Ever Go Back to Moderate Use? Does Withdrawal Make Heroin/Opiates Addictive? Appendix E People Can Moderate—If They Prefer It You Can Moderate, But Is That What You Really Want to Do? “Yeah, But I Tried Before and Lost Control” The Myth of Willpower What About Impaired Judgment? The Bottom Line Afterword About the Authors Thank you for downloading The Freedom Model for Addictions. FOREWORD
BY PETER VENTURELLI, PhD
As a university professor, I devoted thirty-four years of my life to teaching,
researching, and publishing my accumulated and trusted knowledge and beliefs about major theoretical findings concerning drug use and abuse.For example, one of my ongoing publications, now in the 13th edition, Drugs and Society, by Hanson, Venturelli, and Fleckenstein, (Jones and Bartlett Learning, Burlington, MA 2017) is a comprehensive text covering drug use and abuse.1 At this point in time after reading The Freedom Model, many of my beliefs about drug use and addiction have been turned on their head. I am confident in predicting that authors Steven Slate and Mark Scheeren have written a revolutionary book that will challenge your conventional beliefs about drug use, addiction, and recovery. The Freedom Model fully explains a simple idea that has guided Baldwin Research Institute’s groundbreaking work at the Saint Jude Retreats for three decades, emphasizing that serious alcohol and/or drug problems are solved by personal choice. Logically speaking, since personal choices cause drinking and/or drugging behavior, other personal choices can also modify or eliminate this behavior. Any attachment to a drug is created by self-action, and any lasting change of this attachment consists of reorienting your thinking about drugs and drug use. Other corresponding views that the Freedom Model begins with are the premises that as humans all of us pursue happiness with free will
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