For any of our London followers, you might like to join us at the Westminster Skeptics this Monday evening. Author Tania Glyde will discussing her own post-drinking memoir ‘Cleaning Up‘.
Thinking critically about addiction
Monday, January 9 at 7:30PM
Where?
The Monk Exchange
Strutton Ground
London
SW1H 0HWWhat’s the talk about?
Addiction is a very modern obsession. Like allergies, everyone’s got one, yet many people present the evidence for their ‘addictive personality’ by announcing their greater-than-average capacity for biscuits.
But what is addiction?
Compulsion, behaviour, illness, all three, or none of the above?
Do AA and other 12 step recovery programmes really work?
And will a skeptic *ever* admit to needing a higher power?
Tania Glyde is the author of Cleaning Up, a memoir about how she took on British drinking culture and survived.
via Westminster Skeptics.
Don’t worry, it’s taking place in a pub.
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