Chasing the Scream
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Johann Hari
The New York Times BestsellerWhat if everything you think you know about addiction is wrong? Johann Hari's journey into the heart of the war on drugs led him to ask this question--and to write the book that gave rise to his viral TED talk, viewed more than 62 million times, and inspired the feature film The United States vs. Billie Holiday and the documentary series The Fix. One of Johann Hari's earliest memories is of trying to wake up one of his relatives and not being able to. As he grew older, he realized he had addiction in his family. Confused, not knowing what to do, he set out and traveled over 30,000 miles over three years to discover what really causes addiction--and what really solves it. He uncovered a range of remarkable human stories--of how the war on drugs began with Billie Holiday, the great jazz singer, being stalked and killed by a racist policeman; of the scientist who discovered the surprising key to addiction; and of the countries that ended their own war on drugs--with extraordinary results. Chasing the Scream is the story of a life-changing journey that transformed the addiction debate internationally--and showed the world that the opposite of addiction is connection.
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Author
Johann Hari
Pages
400
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published Date
2015-01-20
ISBN
1620408929 9781620408926
Ratings
Google: 4.5
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"I first saw this authors Ted Talk about addiction and I knew I had to read his book. Just like the summary says, what if everything you knew about addiction was wrong. It certainly gave me a different perspective."
Sheldon Rapoza
"Had to read this for school… found it quite dense, but interesting and eye opening nonetheless. I rarely read nonfiction, so I’m glad that of the books I’ve read this is one of them. <br/><br/>It changed my view on drug legalization for sure. I always thought that the legalization of marijuana in Canada was a sign of the world going to crap, but now I can see how legalizing drugs and eliminating prohibition entirely can completely reform the problems I see on a daily basis in our society. It has the potential to decrease gang violence and significant levels of police brutality that we witness time and again, discriminatory and unjust incarceration of black peoples (and other vulnerable populations) even though just as many white people are found to be partaking drugs, etc etc. Even walking along Rideau st. in Ottawa and seeing all the people with addictions, I know I’ll wonder how different this could be if drug prohibition were to be ended. I’m still not in support of people taking any and all drugs, or of adolescents having better access to them, but there is obviously undisputed evidence that legalizing drugs could prove to be a better system that the one of corruption, violence, and discrimination that we have right now."
Jan
"It is eye opening. It will piss you off. Time to end the War on Drugs… it’s really hurting people and society. "
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