Praise from important figures in the field of addiction research and practice

Addiction is still seen as something that happens to people, almost without regard to their own motives or intentions, rather than as a subtle didactic between an external pharmacology and an internal pharmacology which is underlaid ... by such entities as desires, wishes, motives, beliefs and so forth. A number of notable works which do not fit this mold have come to light over the last couple of decades, but the fact that they can be easily recalled (e.g., Heather and Robertson, Peele, Orford, etc.) is an indicant of the relative rarity of these acts of nonconformity.
—John B. Davies, Addiction Research, 5:77, 1997

Stanton Peele is most certainly the most knowledgeable and well written professional on the subject of addictions. His 1974 book Love and Addiction was a breakthrough. People laughed when Stanton said people were just as addicted to cigarettes, love and gambling as they are to drugs: No one laughs at Stanton any more.
—Robert Muscala, Making a new century of chemical health, Chemical Health Concepts, January 2000, p. 1