Do You Need Psychological Oxygen?

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"What we want to do is support the natural flows of psychological oxygen in our real lives," he says. That ally means doing things we love with the people that we love. "We have wall paper for our phones. What if for every contact you have? We joked it was called love paper."

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.