Most people believe alcohol and illegal drugs cause addiction.
They also believe addiction is a treatable disease. If you challenge those ideas, you are likely to be labeled ignorant at best and a heretic at worst. In this course you will become aware of the fiction about drugs and addiction masquerading as fact, and the fact about drugs and addiction most people regard as fiction. In the first part of the course we examine the accurate versus inaccurate definitions of addiction. We review the substantial empirical evidence showing people use drugs to change their consciousness for existential and psychological reasons, not necessarily chemical or biological ones.