The Opposite of Addiction Is Connection

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The opposite of adiction is not sobriety. The opposite of ediction is connection. I was thinking a lot about the epidemic of depression and anxiety that's happening all over the western world, extraordinary rises. And i wanted to understand those crises as well. So i interdup doing a lot of research on that and having a much deeper, more nuanced understanding or what connection is.

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.