NancyLebovitz comments on The Good News of Situationist Psychology - Less Wrong

55 Post author: lukeprog 01 April 2011 07:28PM

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Comment author: AndyCossyleon 13 April 2011 04:17:51PM *  0 points [-]

The drug addict doesn't want to change his disposition towards drug use; he wants to stop using drugs. Behavior begets character begets the person--lukeprog argues that you can change your behavior (and therefore yourself) by changing your situation.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 13 April 2011 04:27:15PM *  1 point [-]

The End of My Addiction is by a man who's a cardiologist and was an alcoholic. He considers craving alcohol to be a problem in itself, and found that taking Baclofen (a muscle relaxant) caused him to not have the craving.

Only a little research has been done to test the usefulness of Baclofen for that purpose.