Understanding Addiction

Hi again. I’ve been back home in the Netherlands for exactly two weeks, and there has been so little time for anything…so I have not posted anything. Lots of course work to catch up on. One new class started last week, and I had to prepare my lectures…with eye-catching Powerpoint animation, jokes that might seem […] (Read the rest.)

Hello people! It feels good to be back in touch with you….as though you are my long-lost family. I have posted some comments, haphazardly, in response to recent comments of yours. For anyone still waiting for a reply from me, I’m sorry. I’ll be home in three more days and I will catch up soon. […] (Read the rest.)

I just got a piece published in Newsweek! This makes me happy, to be sure. But if you see the paper version, the headline they picked does NOT appeal to me:  “My Kool Acid Test”. Hmmm….not my choice, but I couldn’t talk them out of it. Oh well, it’s Newsweek, and I’m a shameless publicity […] (Read the rest.)

Several posts ago I started a discussion of “the pivot point” — the moment when we give in to our cravings and dive for the drugs or the booze. I emphasized a few things about this event, many of which resonated with readers’ experiences — in fact many of which came from readers: -it can […] (Read the rest.)

Why the new book image on the homepage? My book is going south. It just got published in Australia/New Zealand, and on March 6th it will be released in the US. The cover you see now is the US version. The Australian version, which features my addicted brain as a moth-infested lightbulb, can be seen […] (Read the rest.)