- Bill W.
William Griffith Wilson (26 November 1895-24 January 1971) (also known as Bill Wilson or Bill W.), was the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), a fellowship of self-help groups dedicated to helping alcoholics recover from their addiction. According to the AA tradition of anonymity, Wilson was and still is commonly known as "Bill W." In 1934, in the course of his struggle with alcoholism, … - Stanton Peele
Stanton Peele, Ph. D., J.D., (born January 8, 1946) is a licensed psychologist, attorney, practicing psychotherapist and the author of numerous books and articles on the subject of alcoholism, addiction and treatment. His contribution to the field of alcoholism has won him several awards including the 1994 Alfred R. Lindesmith Award for achievement in the Field of Scholarship, from the Drug Policy Foundation, Washington, … - Allen Carr
Allen Carr was most notable as the author of books on how to stop smoking (having given up after 31 years as a five-pack-per-day chain smoker) and, as he stressed, escape nicotine addiction. - Jonathan Larson
Jonathan Larson was an American composer and playwright who lived in New York City and authored musicals, including "Rent" and "Tick, Tick... BOOM!". These musicals tackle serious issues such as multiculturalism, addiction, homophobia, and the AIDS epidemic. His artistic vision and goal was to fuse Generation X and the MTV Generation with the world of musical theatre in his work. This mission was somewhat accomplished by his magnum opus, "Rent", … - John Bradshaw
John Elliot Bradshaw (born June 29, 1933 in Houston, Texas) is an American educator, counselor, motivational speaker and author best known for his PBS television programs on topics such as addiction, recovery, codependency and spirituality. Bradshaw is active in the self-help movement, and is credited with popularizing such ideas as the "wounded inner child" and the dysfunctional family. His books are mainly works of popular psychology. - Jason Leopold
Jason Leopold is a reporter who currently works as a senior editor and reporter for Truthout.org, and is also the author of the 2006 memoir "News Junkie". He began his career in 1992, writing obituaries for The Reporter Dispatch newspaper in White Plains. He became the crime and courts reporter for the Whittier Daily News in 1997 and then moved onto City News Service where he covered court trials. - Jeff Bates
Jeff Bates (born March 30, 1961) is an American country singer from Bunker Hill, Mississippi. - Roy Black
Roy Black was a German "Schlager" singer and actor who appeared in several musical comedies and starred in the 1989 TV series "Ein Schloß am Wörthersee". Born Gerhard Höllerich in Straßberg near Augsburg, Roy Black attended the "gymnasium" in Augsburg and, aged 20, founded the rock and roll band "Roy Black and His Cannons". His stage name derived from his black hair and his idol Roy Orbison. - Sally Satel
Sally Satel, MD, is a Washington, D.C. based psychiatrist, a lecturer at Yale University School of Medicine, the W.H. Brady Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and author. Books written by Satel include "P.C. M.D.: How Political Correctness is Corrupting Medicine" (2001) and "Drug Treatment: The Case for Coercion" (1999). Her articles have been published in "The New Republic", the "Wall Street Journal", the "New York Times", … - Marc Kern
Marc F. Kern is a Ph.D. in clinical psychology with a specialty in non-12-step addiction recovery. He is CEO and director of Addiction Alternatives, Inc. - Katherine van Wormer
Katherine van Wormer, a professor of social work at the University of Northern Iowa and a writer on addiction treatment, claimed in an Irish Times article on May 6 2003 that U.S. president George W. Bush seems to display "all the classic patterns of addictive thinking". Dr. van Wormer holds a B.A. in English from the University of North Carolina, a postgraduate degree in education from Queen's University of Belfast, a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Georgia, … - Vivian Liberto
Vivian Liberto was the first wife of country singer Johnny Cash. Liberto met Johnny Cash in 1950 at a roller skating rink in San Antonio, Texas three weeks before the Air Force deployed him to Germany. At the time, she was still a senior at Providence High School, an all-girl Catholic school in San Antonio. During Cash's military tour overseas, the couple wrote each other over 10,000 pages of love letters. On July 3, 1954, Cash was discharged from the Air Force. - Howard Lotsof
Howard Lotsof discovered the anti-addictive effects of ibogaine in 1962. He was awarded a number of patents for the treatment of various chemical dependencies with ibogaine. The first of Lotsof's patents, issued in 1985, was US Patent 4,499,096, Rapid Method for Interrupting the Narcotic Addiction Syndrome. The last patent in the series for the use of ibogaine to treat chemical dependence was US Patent 5,152,994, … - David E Smith
Dr. David E. Smith is recognized as a national leader in addiction medicine, the psychopharmacology of drugs, new research strategies in the management of drug abuse problems, and proper prescribing practices for physicians. He is the Founder of the Haight Ashbury Free Clinics of San Francisco and has been honored as one of the "Best Doctors in America". Dr. Smith is a Fellow and Past President of the American Society of Addiction Medicine, … - Tim O'Malley
Tim O'Malley is an US actor and playwright, director living in Chicago. He is a Core Faculty Member at the Second City Training Center. He is most recognizable as Patrick, the bartender in "Return to Me." O'Malley started in show-business as a singer. He sang with Sony Recording Artist and Grammy winner Shawn Colvin in college at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale before either of them knew where they were headed. - Wonderland Avenue
"Wonderland Avenue: Tales of Glamour and Excess", first published in 1991, is the personal memoir of late author and Doors manager Danny Sugerman. In the book, Sugerman recounts his life beginning with his privileged but troubled childhood in Beverly Hills, which he asserts set the stage for his later self-destructive addictions and behavior. "Wonderland Avenue" covers the first eight years of Sugerman's show business career, … - George Koob
George F. Koob, Ph.D. (1947-) is a Professor and Chair of the Committee on the Neurobiology of Addictive Disorders at The Scripps Research Institute and Adjunct Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Koob is a pioneering researcher in the field of substance abuse and stress. He has proposed, with Dr. Michel Le Moal, … - Mary Gaitskill
Mary Gaitskill (born November 11, 1954 in Lexington, Kentucky) is an American author of essays, short stories and novels. Her work has appeared in "The New Yorker", "Harper's Magazine", "Esquire", "The Best American Short Stories" (1993 and 2006), and "The O. Henry Prize Stories" (1998). She married writer Peter Trachtenberg in 2001. As of 2005, she lived in New York City; Gaitskill has previously lived in Toronto, San Francisco, … - Stuart Gitlow
Stuart Gitlow (born November 29, 1962), board-certified in addiction and forensic psychiatry, is the Executive Director of the Annenberg Physician Training Program in addictive diseases. - Topper Headon
Topper Headon (born Nicholas Bowen Headon, 30 May 1955, Bromley, Kent, England), better known as 'Topper' (because of his resemblance to the cartoon monkey), is a British rock and roll drummer, best known for his membership in the punk rock band, The Clash. - Fitz Hugh Ludlow
Fitz Hugh Ludlow, sometimes seen as “Fitzhugh Ludlow,” (September 11, 1836 - September 12, 1870) was an American author, journalist, and explorer; best-known for his autobiographical book "The Hasheesh Eater" (1857). The explorations of altered states of consciousness in "The Hasheesh Eater" are at the same time eloquent descriptions of elusive subjective phenomena and surreal, bizarre, and beautiful literature. - Shawn Woolley
Shawn Woolley (1980 - November 22, 2001), of Wisconsin, was an avid player of the computer game "EverQuest", an MMORPG, who had been diagnosed with epilepsy, depression and schizoid personality disorder, and committed suicide at the age of 21. He shot himself and was found dead at his computer, which was still running "EverQuest". His mother, Elizabeth Woolley, describes Shawn's playing as addictive, … - Roy Simmons
Roy Franklin Simmons (born November 8, 1956) is an American athlete who played for the National Football League. He played offensive lineman for the New York Giants and then with the Washington Redskins during Super Bowl XVIII in 1984. In 1992, he came out as gay on the "Phil Donahue Show". In his autobiography, "Out of Bounds" (written with Damon DiMarco), he speaks of drug addiction, prostitution, and promiscuity. - Joe Zychik
Joe Zychik is an important figure in philosophical and practical anti-psychiatry. He believes that addictions are not driven by mental illness, but by poor personal choices. Zychik is a specialist in the treatment of sexual addiction using non-traditional methods based in free choice and human will. * Homepage of "Choice-Over-Addiction": http://www.sexualcontrol.com/ - Ebby Thacher
Edwin Throckmorton Thacher (29 April 1896-21 March 1966) (commonly known as Ebby Thacher or Ebby T.), was an old drinking friend of Alcoholics Anonymous co-founder Bill Wilson. He is credited with introducing Wilson to the initial principles that AA would soon develop, such as "one alcoholic talking to another," and the Jungian thesis which was passed along to Rowland Hazard and, in turn, … - Peter Perrett
Peter Perrett (born Peter Albert Neil Perrett on April 8, 1952 at Kings College Hospital, Camberwell, London) is an English singer-songwriter. He fronted the late 1970s English band, The Only Ones. Peter lives in Forest Hill, South East London. Perrett re-emerged briefly between 1994 and 1996 fronting a new band called The One which released an EP called "Cultured Palate" and a full length album "Woke up Sticky". - Alfred R. Lindesmith
Alfred R. Lindesmith was an Indiana University professor of sociology. He was also among the early scholars providing a rigorous and thoughtful account of the nature of addiction. Lindesmith's interest in drugs began at the University of Chicago, where he was trained in social psychology, earning his doctorate in 1937. His education there was a mixture of the analytical and theoretical, a balance that would later appear in his drug studies. - Melody Anderson
Melody Anderson (born December 3, 1955) is a Canadian-American social worker and public speaker specializing in the impact of addiction on families. She is more widely known as an actress, with her most high-profile role being Dale Arden in the 1980 adaptation of "Flash Gordon". - Althea Flynt
Althea Flynt, née Leasure, was the fourth wife of Larry Flynt and the co-publisher of Flynt's notorious adult magazine, "Hustler". Leasure was born November 6, 1953 in Marietta, Ohio. Althea and her two sisters Sherry and Marsha came from an abusive home; at the age of 8, Althea watched her father shoot her mother and grandparents, and then shoot himself. She was put into an orphanage, until she ran away as a teenager. Althea met Larry at age 17 in 1971, … - Nasir Naqvi
Nasir Naqvi is a medical student and cognitive neuroscientist in the Medical Scientist Training Program and the Graduate Program in Neuroscience at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. Naqvi's work has focused on the cognitive neuroscience of emotion, especially as it relates to psychiatric disorders such as addiction. - Eric Douglas
Eric Douglas was an American actor. He was born Eric Anthony Douglas in Los Angeles, California, the youngest son of actor Kirk Douglas and German mother Anne Buydens. His half-brother is Michael Douglas. Unlike his more-famous Academy Award-winning relatives, Eric Douglas' most notable movie was the 1986 comedy "The Golden Child", which starred Eddie Murphy. Douglas battled with drug and alcohol problems for years, … - Kim Deitch
Kim Deitch (born 1944) is an American comics artist. He was an important figure in the underground comix movement of the 1960s, regularly contributing comical, psychedelia-tinged comic strips (featuring the flower child "Sunshine Girl" and "The India Rubber Man") to New York City's premier underground newspaper, "The East Village Other", beginning in 1967. He became editor of EVO's all-comics spin-off, "Gothic Blimp Works", in 1969. - Charles Elliot
Charles Elliot, also Charles Elliott was a British naval officer, diplomat, colonial administrator and drug-trafficker - a combination considered legitimate at the time. Born in England, he joined the British Royal Navy in 1816. He participated in the bombardment of Algiers, served in India, Africa and the West Indies and became an Admiral. He was appointed Chief Superintendent of Trade and British Minister to China in 1835 and was based in Macao, … - William Duncan Silkworth
William Duncan Silkworth, M.D., (1873?-1951) was an American medical doctor and specialist in the treatment of alcoholism. He was Director of the Charles B. Towns Hospital for Drug and Alcohol Addictions in New York City in the 1930s, during which time Bill Wilson, a future co-founder of the mutual-help movement Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.), was admitted on three separate occasions for alcoholism. - Caesar Barber
Caesar Barber is an American man who got famous for attempting to sue the fast food chains McDonalds, Burger King, Wendy's, and Kentucky Fried Chicken for having made him addicted to their foods, resulting in his becoming overweight. At the time of the suit, Barber was 57 years old and weighed 272 pounds (123 kilograms). He was medically obese, suffered from diabetes, and had had two heart attacks. He lived in the Bronx, and worked as a maintenance worker. - Jimmy Kinnon
James P. Kinnon (5 April, 1911 - 9 July 1985, commonly known as Jimmy Kinnon or "Jimmy K.") was the co-founder of Narcotics Anonymous (NA), an international association of recovering drug addicts. During his lifetime, he was usually referred to as "Jimmy K." due to NA's principle of "personal anonymity" on the public level. He never referred to himself as the "founder" of NA, … - Mike Norris
Michael Kelvin Norris (born March 19, 1955 in San Francisco, California) is a former Major League Baseball right-handed starting pitcher who played with the Oakland Athletics (1975-83, 1990). Norris is best remembered for his spectacular 1980 season. He went 22-9 with 24 complete games and a 2.53 ERA, while also earning the Gold Glove Award. However, he was not awarded the American League Cy Young Award. Steve Stone of the Baltimore Orioles, who had a record of 25-7, … - Luca Prodan
Luca Prodan was an Italian-Argentine musician. Born in Rome, he was the son of an Italian father and a Scottish mother. Prodan attended Gordonstoun School, a private boarding school in Scotland, and for some time drifted in Manchester and London. In 1981, after two of his friends died (one of them being Ian Curtis), he moved to Argentina seeking peace to try kicking his heroin addiction. After some time in a farm in the Traslasierra valley in the province of Córdoba, … - James Fallon
James H. Fallon (b. 1947 Poughkeepsie, Loudonville, New York) received his biology and chemistry undergraduate training at Saint Michael's College in Vermont and his psychology and psychophysics degree at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York. He carried out his Ph.D. training in neuroanatomy and neurophysiology at the University of Illinois College of Medicine, and his postdoctoral training in chemical neuroanatomy at the University of California, San Diego. - Coronji Calhoun
Coronji Calhoun (b. 1991) is an American child actor. He portrayed Tyrell, the adolescent son of Lawrence and Leticia Musgrove in the 2001 movie Monster's Ball. Halle Berry as Leticia with Coronji Calhoun as Tyrell await Lawrence's last phone call in "Monster's Ball".
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