Connection

What causes addiction? Easy, right? Drugs cause addiction. But maybe it is not that simple. This video is adapted from Johann Hari's New York Times best-selling book 'Chasing The Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs.' For more information, and to take a quiz to see what you know about addiction, go to www.chasingthescream.com. See this video with 17 million views: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao8L-0nSYzg&feature=youtu.be (The video is no longer available, it is now available at https://chasingthescream.com/videos).

Further reading

• The Opposite of Addiction – Connection
• Chasing the Scream: The Opposite of Addiction is Connection (Summary of the book)
  • TedTalk: Everything We Think We Know About Addiction Is Wrong
  • Animation