A new joint-venture national effort tries to convince people that addiction is a brain disease without providing solid proof.

According to Adherents.com, only about 16% of the world’s population is non-religious. That means that somewhere in the neighborhood of 5.1 billion people believe in some sort of spirituality and separation from the body. Most people also believe there is a difference between the body, mind and spirit, that they act as one but they are not the same. This is not a lecture on spirituality though, it is proof that we’re being railroaded and nobody is fighting against it.

A new joint venture between the Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA*), Join Together and Faces and Voices for Recovery (FAVOR) has been heavily promoting a new HBO series called Addiction. Normally this would be a good thing, but they are pushing that addiction is a chronic, relapsing brain disease, and that the treatments for it often call for more drugs. Behind this push is a series of scientists at the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA), which have also come out with a new publication trying to explain their addiction brain theory and pass it off as fact - a fact they cannot prove and which goes directly against the fundemental premise of nearly 85% of the world’s population - we are not our brains, they are simply a part of us.

Withouth oversimplifying it, our brains are the control center for our central nervous system - it is a reactionary tool. Our minds are what we think and reason with - our consciousness. Aside from belief, more scientists have been researching the difference between the brain and the mind and one of the most prolific is Bruce Lipton, Ph.D, author of Biology of Belief.

In a section on his website entitled Mind Over Genes: The New Biology, Dr. Bruce

Lipton writes, “This new perspective of human biology does not view the body as just a mechanical device, but rather incorporates the role of a mind and spirit. This breakthrough in biology is fundamental in all healing for it recognizes that when we change our perception or beliefs we send totally different messages to our cells and reprogram their expression. The new-biology reveals why people can have spontaneous remissions or recover from injuries deemed to be permanent disabilities.”

This research is proof of why the Drug-Free Alliance is against calling addiction a brain disease and against drugging people to try and treat the symptoms of addiction. It is also more proof of why most of us know that we are not our bodies and with our minds we have the ability to overcome substance abuse and not get categorized as an incurable disease. There are countless examples of people who have fully recovered from addiction and have had no further treatment or symptoms.

What can you do about it? First of all, the organizations listed at the top are asking people to notify their congressmen about the HBO series and ask them to watch it. As a start, you can write your congressman and let them know that their constituents do not believe in the brain theory and do not want more money supporting such a ludicrous idea.

You can also write a letter to the editor in your local paper, to let them and fellow neighbors know about what is taking place with their tax dollars. Send us a copy of your letter so we can also post it on a special section on the Drug-Free Alliance website. If you have other ideas of how to combat this, let us know so we can also let others know too.

Thank you for your support!

Original post by Luke Catton