Portland Hotel Society Public Lecture Series presents:
Stanton Peele
TRUE RECOVERY: Does addiction treatment detach people from their own recovery by attacking their greatest asset?
THURSDAY JANUARY 27, 2011
7:00 – 9:00 pm
SFU HARBOUR CENTRE
515 West Hastings Street
Room 1900 – Fletcher Challenge Theatre
Vancouver
Soup, coffee and dessert will be served at 6:30 pm
THIS IS A FREE EVENT, BUT PLEASE RSVP TO [email protected]
Stanton Peele, Ph.D., J.D., is a renowned psychologist who has for the past 40 years challenged the more simplistic notions and models of addiction that have predominated the North American debate. He is one of the pioneers of harm reduction, acknowledging that addiction occurs with a range of experiences and that there is something called a natural recovery from addiction. He is the author of Love and Addiction, The Meaning of Addiction,7 Tools to Beat Addiction, etc., and is the Developer of the Life Process Program for defeating addiction.