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Re:Anti-addiction drug maker found a captive market in the c... by zkms on Friday June 30, 2017 @02:41PM (#14672831)
> True, the success rate isn't very high, which is the direct result of the variability of whether each individual possesses the tiny bit of willingness to change, which is essential to the recovery process.

"If our process hasn't worked for you, you didn't want it to work enough" is unfalsifiable and can be used to defend any sort of quackery. Indeed, there's no way to generate a counterexample -- of someone who had "willingness to change" but for whom the drug court didn't work -- because the defender of the drug court can always claim that they "didn't want to change enough".

Pseudoscience of this sort has no role in anything as fraught and complex as drug use/addiction.

Re:Anti-addiction drug maker found a captive market in the c... by 0xcde4c3db on Saturday July 01, 2017 @12:05AM (#14675320)
> "If our process hasn't worked for you, you didn't want it to work enough" is unfalsifiable and can be used to defend any sort of quackery.

Notably, it is routinely used to defend 12-step programs. The standard set of slogans includes the phrase "it works if you work it" (which I've more recently seen applied to cognitive-behavioral therapy).

Re:Anti-addiction drug maker found a captive market in the c... by CodeWriter23 on Saturday July 01, 2017 @07:15AM (#14676580)
So by your definition, "science" means curing addiction by giving the addict more drugs.