ADDICTION

What This Book Covers

1. Chapter One - The First Fix
2. Chapter Two - The Drug Empires
3. Chapter Three - Colonial Addiction
4. Chapter Four - Patent Medicine and Snake Oil
5. Chapter Five - Cigarettes and Cinema
6. Chapter Six - Prohibition and Profit
7. Chapter Seven - War on Drugs, War on People
8. Chapter Eight - The Opioid Explosion
9. Chapter Nine - The Rehab Industry
10. Chapter Ten - Behavioral Addiction Goes Mainstream
11. Chapter Eleven - Silicon Valley Discovers Dopamine
12. Chapter Twelve - The Vape Shift
13. Chapter Thirteen - Weed, Legalized and Monetized
14. Chapter Fourteen - The Crisis of Overstimulation
15. Chapter Fifteen - Escape Attempts
16. Chapter Sixteen - The World Is the Drug

Excerpt

CHAPTER ONE The First Fix BEFORE ADDICTION BECAME a crisis, a crime, or a diagnosis, It was a party. You wanna know the first drug humans ever got hooked on? It wasn’t crack. It wasn’t heroin. It was wine. We were getting drunk before we were writing. Before we were farming. Before we were even talking in full sentences. Somewhere between discovering fire and inventing God, somebody figured out that if you leave some fruit in a jar long enough, it starts making you feel funny. And that was it. Game on. The earliest addicts weren’t criminals. They were priests. The earliest dealers weren’t cartels. They were temples. Wine wasn’t just a drink. It was sacred. Divine. Cosmic. You didn’t sip it...