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Chasing the Scream
By Johann Hari
Archival Summary & Scope
Revised and Updated, The New York Times Bestseller.Johann Hari's *Chasing the Scream* challenges conventional wisdom about addiction, asking: What if everything we know is wrong? Driven by personal experience, Hari embarked on a 30,000-mile, three-year journey to uncover addiction's true causes and solutions. He reveals surprising human stories: from jazz singer Billie Holiday's targeting and death by a racist policeman at the dawn of the War on Drugs, to a key scientific discovery, and nations that successfully ended their own drug wars. This influential book, which inspired a viral TED Talk (62M+ views), *The United United States vs. Billie Holiday*, and *The Fix*, argues that the opposite of addiction is connection.
Categorization Notes
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