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A few years ago, a journalist asked me whether I was concerned about the stigma associated with addiction. I replied that I could imagine few behaviors more deserving of stigmatization. The National Association of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselors greeted my comment with a press release stating, "Dr. Satel's nonsensical statement that divorces brain functioning from human behavior further erodes her credibility as an addiction expert." Some months later, I repeated my prostigma comment at a debate at the annual meeting of the College on Problems of Drug Dependence and elicited a collective gasp from the audience. Clearly I committed heresy. . . .
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Sally Satel, M.D., is a resident scholar at AEI.
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