Globalization of Addiction
by Bruce Alexander · first published 2010
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…interested parties can peruse the works of Dr Bruce Alexander, in the form of a blog-retrospective [1], or a slightly more technical presentation to the Canadian Senate [2], or his excellent book, The Globalization of Addiction: A Study of Poverty of the Spirit [3]. A layman-readable synthesis goes something like this: folk wisdom holds that some drugs are insanely addictive, as an inherent property of the drug. But this has…
on “What If Addiction Is Not a Disease?” ↗…America) even more in that direction is. I wish I knew of a well-written book or article explaining how addiction damages communities, but I do not, so here is a badly-written book: Bruce K. Alexander's Globalization of Addiction.
I have a short list of books that I recommend that have changed my worldview. First and foremost on that list is Bruce Alexander's _The Globalization Of Addiction_: http://www.amazon.com/The-Globalization-Addiction-Poverty-Sp... If you've got the bug, that book is not going to help you. It'll just tell you how screwed you are. If you don't have the bug, I think…
on “No One to Rescue Me from My Drinking” ↗…connections to all these things. You need to release any shame you might feel for having been mistreated." * "Chasing the Scream: the First and Last Days of the War on Drugs" by Johann Hari * "The Globalization of Addiction: A Study in Poverty of the Spirit" by Bruce Alexander * "In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction" by Gabor Maté, MD * "The Story You Need to Tell: Writing to Heal from Trauma,…
on “Let’s avoid talk of ‘chemical imbalance’: it’s people in distress” ↗