The Thing We've Gotten Wrong About Understanding Addiction ft. Johann Hari

What if everything you think you know about addiction is wrong? Johann Hari's personal 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.
Johann Hari is a best selling author of many books like Chasing the Scream, the War on Drugs, Lost Connections, Stolen Focus, and Magic Pill - The extraordinary benefits and disturbing risks of new weight loss drugs.”
We previously released an episode with Kate DeAraugo about her personal experiences with addiction and today we wanted to look at addiction a bit more broadly and unpack how it comes about and why so many of our loved ones are battling with addiction or substance abuse issues.
We spoke about:
The difficult narrative of loving an addict and not knowing what to do to help
The story of what causes addiction isn’t accurate
Why blaming it all on biology isn’t helpful, nor is blaming it all on personal choices
Policies based on shame and punishment make addiction worse
How much control we actually have over our own willpower
People with ‘addictive’ personalities
The money-happiness trap; the hedonic effect
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Hosted by Laura Byrne & Britt Hockley
Produced by Keeshia Pettit
Video Produced by Jonathan Liondis
Recorded on Cammeraygal Land

[@biegebythesea6775]

i love johann hari. great journalist. he was quite active in the 00s or 10s i think (very sexist times - still are, though). I remember when he called out Busted for laughing at a fan for being fat & suicidal and they basically joked and told her to kill herself. Johann rinsed them.

[@madsteve9]

He was fired for making stuff up. Including interview with celebrities that never took place.
Then he was Russell Brand, bitch boy, doing all his media stuff.