Tag Archives: addiction

Creating peace

Posted on January 23, 2015 by gwpj

For a viable future to be possible we must, as Martin Luther King, Jr. said many years ago, learn to live together as brothers, or we will perish together as fools. The reason why is clear: the destructive power of … Continue reading →

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Using wars to find peace.

Posted on August 26, 2014 by gwpj

World War One began a hundred years ago. Billed as “The war to end all wars,” it was but the beginning of more than one hundred years of continuous war fought somewhere, wars that have cost trillions of dollars and killed … Continue reading →

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Surprises

Posted on March 29, 2014 by gwpj

One of the things I learned about my alcohol addiction is that I was and am chemically dependent. In other words, alcohol isn’t the only chemical that messes me up. Painkillers also do that. How do I know? I learned … Continue reading →

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Is it wrong to call drug users “addicts”?

Posted on March 28, 2014 by gwpj

Meghan Ralston, the harm reduction coordinator for the  Drug Policy Alliance seems to think so. “Addict,” she writes in her AlterNet blog on March 25, “is one of those words that so many of us use, largely without pausing to … Continue reading →

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