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Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs

Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs - Paperback

by Johann Hari
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Availability:In StockContributor:Johann HariPublish date:2016-03-01Pages:400
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury USAISBN-13:9781620408919ISBN-10:1620408910UPC:9781620408919Book Category:Social Science, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Criminology, Public PolicyBook Topic:Social PolicySize:8.20 x 5.40 x 1.30 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SCWV6ZY1C6

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What if everything you think you know about addiction is wrong? Johann Hari's journey into the heart of the war on drugs led him to ask this question--and to write the book that gave rise to his viral TED talk, viewed more than 62 million times, and inspired the feature film The United States vs. Billie Holiday and the documentary series The Fix.

One of Johann Hari's earliest memories is of trying to wake up one of his relatives and not being able to. As he grew older, he realized he had addiction in his family. Confused, not knowing what to do, he set out and traveled over 30,000 miles over three years to discover what really causes addiction--and what really solves it.

He uncovered a range of remarkable human stories--of how the war on drugs began with Billie Holiday, the great jazz singer, being stalked and killed by a racist policeman; of the scientist who discovered the surprising key to addiction; and of the countries that ended their own war on drugs--with extraordinary results.

Chasing the Scream is the story of a life-changing journey that transformed the addiction debate internationally--and showed the world that the opposite of addiction is connection.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury USAISBN-13:9781620408919ISBN-10:1620408910UPC:9781620408919Book Category:Social Science, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Criminology, Public PolicyBook Topic:Social PolicySize:8.20 x 5.40 x 1.30 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SCWV6ZY1C6
Johann Hari is the author of Lost Connections. He was twice named Newspaper Journalist of the Year by Amnesty International UK. He has written for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and others, and he is a regular panelist on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher. His TED talk, "Everything You Think You Know About Addiction Is Wrong," and the animation based on it have more than twenty million views. Hari lives in London.
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA

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