"The Governing Approach to Addiction is a Murderous Abomination -- The Time Has Come to Take it Down!"

Peter Ferentzy  PhD  Crackhead

Author of Dealing with Addiction -- Why the 20th Century was Wrong

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So who am I? 

Here's one way to put it:

Peter Ferentzy holds a Ph.D. in Social and Political Thought from York University. His dissertation is a historical sociology of the origins and recent development of the modern concept of addiction with an emphasis on how it has interacted with ideas about mental illness and compulsions in general. Dr. Ferentzy has studied and written extensively on Gamblers Anonymous, as well as other issues related to pathological gambling. Two of his more recently completed studies involve: 1.  The history of ideas related to addiction with an emphasis on problem gambling wherein special attention is paid to the role of metaphoric conceptualization in the construction of scientific discourse; 2.  A street level, ethnographic study of gambling patterns among crack users in downtown Toronto. 

Here's another way: 

Peter Ferentzy is a recovering drunk and a recovering crackhead. He knows this topic from the gutter right up to the halls of academe. After losing two friends to overdose, and seeing clearly that in each case the governing approach to addiction was the cause, Peter wrote Dealing with Addiction -- Why the 20th Century was Wrong. Peter wants to change things, and is arrogant enough to believe that he can.

The endorsement below almost made me blush, but I'll take it:

"Ferentzy hopes to do for addicts what Martin Luther King did for blacks. He'll be just as controversial.” 

A. Tom Horvath, Ph.D., ABPP. President, SMART Recovery; Author of Sex, Drugs, Gambling & Chocolate: A Workbook for Overcoming Addictions

Time to wake up

Time to get busy

Time to step up

Make ‘em go tizzy  © Peter Ferentzy 2010