Many of our clients have criminal records, so this is an important barrier to recovery: We ran an audit experiment that sent trained testers to apply for more than 1,000 entry-level jobs throughout New York City. The fake job applicants were dressed similarly, gave similar answers, and provided résumés with identical education and work experience. … Continue reading Locked out?
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Learn to be lucky
This has nothing to do with addiction but I'm perseverating about it, so I thought I'd share it. Take the case of chance opportunities. Lucky people consistently encounter such opportunities, whereas unlucky people do not. I carried out a simple experiment to discover whether this was due to differences in their ability to spot such … Continue reading Learn to be lucky
Everybody worships
I just read David Foster Wallace's 2005 commencement address at Kenyon College. It's a really, really great read. A lot of it spoke to me, but, in the context of my recent posts on research and the values of harm reduction, this lept out to me: ...in the day-to day trenches of adult life, there is … Continue reading Everybody worships
Positive liberty and addiction
I saw a Facebook comment today referencing "freedom to" and "freedom from". It got me thinking about positive and negative liberty and harm reduction.Negative liberty is the absence of obstacles, barriers or constraints. One has negative liberty to the extent that actions are available to one in this negative sense. Positive liberty is the possibility … Continue reading Positive liberty and addiction
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