by Peter J Adams | Dec 31, 2023 | Addiction, Commercial Determinants
In August 2022, Green Party MP Chlöe Swarbrick’s bill to restrict alcohol advertising and sports sponsorship presented an opportunity to do something meaningful, at last, about the harms alcohol inflicts in our communities. I have been researching the effects of...
by Peter J Adams | Jul 11, 2021 | Addiction
Addiction is often seen as some form of attribute or condition belonging to an individual person and produced by a complex interaction of that person’s body and mind. I see it differently. I see addiction as primarily a social event, and, through the metaphor of an...
by Peter J Adams | Apr 10, 2021 | Addiction, Gambling
The presence of practitioners in recovery from their own addiction as members of teams working with addictions has a critical value in developing service effectiveness. From the point of view of clients coming to a service, the visible presence of recovering...
by Peter J Adams | Jan 30, 2021 | Addiction
Our responses to problems associated with alcohol and drugs are typically informed by three quite different traditions of thinking; traditions which bump up regularly against each other like large tectonic plates, crunching and grinding, leading at times to tremors of...
by Peter J Adams | Oct 13, 2020 | Addiction
A common way of thinking about the ‘self’ is to see it primarily as an individual object and that this object—or particle—is the appropriate focal point for understanding addiction. Indeed, there are several ways I can view myself as a particle. I am certainly a...
by Peter J Adams | Sep 26, 2020 | Addiction
The power of addictive processes are difficult to make sense of. I recall during my early years as a clinical psychologist being asked by hospital staff to speak with a 32-year-old man addicted to alcohol who was being discharged following treatment for pancreatitus....
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