The Opposite of Addiction

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The opposite o adiction is not sobriety. The opposite of ediction is connection. But first we need to figure out what it really means to connecti onhers time is erascic, and this is your undivided attention. To day on the show, joan hurry, author of chasing the scream, will explain how isolation, depression, anxiety and addiction are not isolated problems. They are all symptoms of a society wide fraying and severing of the connections that really matter.

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.