Introduction

Owen Benet-Jones: Each week I interview leading authors on books that say something about the nature of the world we live in and where it's headed. We are going to try to do something different today to approach the problem of addiction, to understand something more about the individual experience of drug use. So my position is going to be that there's an incredible amount to learn about drug use still from Thomas DeQuincy’s Confessions of an English opium eater. Gina Turugiano: It may turn out to have been fun to be here.