Category : corrections

Posted 10th January 2024

In December 2023, I received an email from a conservative journalist writing for a website. He said he wanted my response to a series of accusations...

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CORRECTIONS XXI – Published December 16th 2020

I have three corrections to make. The first two were pointed out to me by Peter Cracknell, to whom I am grateful.   In the afterword to...

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Corrections XX – posted 20th February 2019

I was emailed with a series of thoughtful and intelligent questions by Stephen who runs the YouTube channel Coffee Break, and in a series of email...

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Corrections XIX – posted June 19th 2017

On page 19 of Chasing The Scream, I write, about Billie Holiday: "Billie brought herself up on the streets of Baltimore, alone, defiant. It was the...

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Corrections XVII – posted June 17th 2016

Captain Paul Vandenbos has emailed to point out an error on page 86. I refer to somebody being a 'Lieutenant Colonel' in the US Navy, which is in...

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Corrections XVI – posted June 6th 2016

On page 183 of Chasing The Scream, I write: “It would be absurd to say the chemicals play no role at all in, say, cigarette or crack addiction. So...

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Corrections – XV, posted April 14th 2016

I was asked by a few people on the book’s Facebook page to respond to an article on the excellent addiction and recovery website ‘The Fix’ that...

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Corrections XIV – posted September 8th 2015

A few more corrections have come through from readers: On page 121, explaining the origins of the Mexican drug cartel the Zetas, I wrote: “It...

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Corrections XIII – posted 11th April 2015

A few more corrections have been brought to my attention. Jonas van Hoffmann emailed to point out two mistakes. On page 259, it says President...

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Corrections XII

Brent Stone emailed to point out a typo. On page 77 in some editions of the book it says: "A few years after the incident Chino I was describing, an...

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