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#149 — The Problem of Addiction

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Operation Golden Flow

Vietnam veterans were followed by Lee Robins of Washington University who wrote a paper that were in which she said this has blown the title of it or the subtitle was something like this, the date I'm about to present now blows out of the water. And what she found following these guys for three years was that very few of them resumed use of heroin 12% over a three-year period. The majority of those who resumed use had a prior use. In other words, a use that predated their deployment and they said, well, you know, we're back in the States. We have families. We have responsibilities. Now it's easier. People will deliver. But,

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