Monday, December 31, 2007

Download Uproar: Record Industry Goes After Personal Use

Despite more than 20,000 lawsuits filed against music fans in the years since they started finding free tunes online rather than buying CDs from record companies, the recording industry has utterly failed to halt the decline of the record album or the rise of digital music sharing.

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Friday, December 07, 2007

"addiction" obsolete! It's now controlled "dependence" says DSM-IV

from Stanton Peele
From the right, the directors of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) have written a plea to return to the term “addiction” – which was replaced by “dependence” in DSM-IV – in DSM-V.
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For example, these assessments will often refer to a prior dependence diagnosis, then claim the person has relapsed since they are again drinking. But, per my role in that volume, there is no mention of use as a sign of relapse, but only use leading to “clinically significant impairment or distress.” DSM thuhttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifs takes the radical position that use of any drug can be controlled, including even following a diagnosis of dependence. Continue at
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Wednesday, December 05, 2007

Neurocomix by Tim Leary and Alan Moore's Promethea

It was at the end of the seventies that Neurocomics (1979) was released in a print run of 10,000. It’s not even listed on the wikipedia entry of his works, and seems overlooked by most Dr. Leary’s fans. So when I was pointed to the torrent of this lost work, I was ecstatic. Download Timothy Leary’s Neurocomics neuocom.jpgfrom Alterati’s torren....

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Neurocomix by Tim Leary and Alan Moore's Promethea

It was at the end of the seventies that Neurocomics (1979) was released in a print run of 10,000. It’s not even listed on the wikipedia entry of his works, and seems overlooked by most Dr. Leary’s fans. So when I was pointed to the torrent of this lost work, I was ecstatic. Download Timothy Leary’s Neurocomics neuocom.jpgfrom Alterati’s torren....

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Neurocomix by Tim Leary and Alan Moore's Promethea

It was at the end of the seventies that Neurocomics (1979) was released in a print run of 10,000. It’s not even listed on the wikipedia entry of his works, and seems overlooked by most Dr. Leary’s fans. So when I was pointed to the torrent of this lost work, I was ecstatic. Download Timothy Leary’s Neurocomics neuocom.jpgfrom Alterati’s torren....

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