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Everything You Think You Know About Addiction Is Wrong
Johann Hari dismantles the chemical-hook theory of addiction by asking what the rat in the cage experiment was actually missing — and what Portugal proved when it stopped punishing and started reconnecting.
- “The opposite of addiction is not sobriety. The opposite of addiction is connection.”
- “What if addiction isn't about your chemical hooks? What if addiction is about your cage?”
- “You go from almost 100% overdose when they're isolated to 0% overdose when they have happy and connected lives.”
- “We created a society where for a lot of us life looks a whole lot more like that isolated cage and a whole lot less like Rat Park.”
- Portugal stopped cutting addicts off and instead spent the money reconnecting them — job creation, microloans, purpose — and every measure of addiction fell significantly.