Stanton Peele

Stanton Peele, Ph.D., has been researching, treating, and writing about addiction for four decades, since the publication of Love and Addiction in 1975. His most recent books are 7 Tools to Beat Addiction and Addiction-Proof Your Child.

Stanton Peele is a seminal figure in the addiction field. Since the publication of Love and Addiction in 1975, he has been a pioneer in applying addiction beyond the area of drugs and alcohol, social-environmental causes of addiction, harm reduction treatment (nonabstinent improvements for addicts), and self-cure of addiction. He has presented these ideas and data in a series of nine books and over 200 professional and popular articles. His first article on addiction, "Love can be an addiction", was published in Psychology Today in 1974 - and he has written for PT in every decade since. Recognition for his academic achievements in addiction has included the Mark Keller Award from the Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Drug Policy Alliance. He contributed a chapter disputing the disease nature of addiction to the epochal 2007 book, Addiction Treatment: Science and Policy for the 21st Century. Dr. Peele lectures internationally on the meaning, treatment, and future of addiction.

Stanton Peele's PT blog is Addiction in Society.