Depression and Addiction

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i had my piffinings around depression natally when i was a ten age. My doctor told me this story that i now realize t it was well intentioned, but hugely over simplified. This is a society that is constantly transferring responsibility for all problems down on to the individual rather than thinking about them structurally. So we see it with adiction, with stigmatization of people with ediction problems and the mass punishment of them. But what we so think about on we actually have a society that doesn't meet people's basic human needs.

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.