Everything you think you know about addiction is wrong | Johann Hari
What really causes addiction — to everything from cocaine to smart-phones? And how can we overcome it? Johann Hari has seen our current methods fail firsthand, as he has watched loved ones...
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One of my earliest memoriesis of trying to wake up one of my relatives and not being able to.And I was just a little kid, so I didn't really understand why,but as I got older,I realized we had drug addiction in my family,including later cocaine addiction.I'd been thinking about it a lot lately, partly because it's now exactly 100 yearssince drugs were first banned in the United States and Britain,and we then imposed that on the rest of the world.It's a century since we made this really fateful decisionto take addicts and punish them and make them suffer,because we believed that would deter them; it would give them an incentive to stop.And a few years ago, I was looking at some of the addicts in my life who I love,and trying to figure out...
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One of my earliest memoriesis of trying to wake up one of my relatives and not being able to.And I was just a little kid, so I didn't really understand why,but as I got older,I realized we had drug addiction in my family,including later cocaine addiction.I'd been thinking about it a lot lately, partly because it's now exactly 100 yearssince drugs were first banned in the United States and Britain,and we then imposed that on the rest of the world.It's a century since we made this really fateful decisionto take addicts and punish them and make them suffer,because we believed that would deter them; it would give them an incentive to stop.And a few years ago, I was looking at some of the addicts in my life who I love,and trying to figure out...
