'Zudblock'

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Tania and Noria became close friends after moving to cotty. The pair realised they had been children with children of their own, in this place they didn't understand. They then launched a referendum initiative to keep rents down across the city that got the largest number of written signatures in the history of berlin. Tania: "What we've built is not deep enough to give us a sense of belonging"

What causes addiction? Johann Hari, author of Chasing the Scream, travelled some 30,000 miles in search of an answer. He met with researchers and lawmakers, drug dealers and drug makers, those who were struggling with substance abuse and those who had recovered from it, and he came to the conclusion that our whole narrative about addiction is broken. "The opposite of addiction is not sobriety," he argues. "The opposite of addiction is connection." But first, we have to figure out what it really means to connect.