Truth About Addiction and Recovery

Stanton Peele's life-process model is genuinely important — grounding addiction in coping behavior rather than permanent disease opened up conversations that mainstream medicine is still catching up to, and the research base is substantial. Readers should know the book is polemical in places and that neuroscience has added nuance since 1991, but as a counterweight to disease-model orthodoxy it remains a productive and honest read. Worth it for anyone touched by addiction who wants more than the standard narrative.