Addiction

Hi everyone,

Here is a Ted Talk about drugs and addictions.

https://www.ted.com/talks/johann_hari_everything_you_think_you_know_about_addiction_is_wrong


During this video, Johann Hari explains to what extend, everything we think we know about addictions (drugs or other) are wrong. In our society, addictions and more especially when it involves drugs, are considered chemicals dependencies.
Thanks to several examples (the Vietnam war, the drugs' policy in Portugal...) and experiences about addictions, he tries to show that our way of thinking and coping with addicts are wrong and tries to prove that the opposite of addiction is not sobriety but connection.
In his new conception, by stigmatizing addicts, by punishing them because of their addictions, we only make it worse.

Enjoy the video and may it change your point of view about addicts.