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BOOK REVIEW: Chasing the Scream by Johann Hari

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Publication Date:  March 1 2016 Format:  Kindle Genre:   Government Social Policy Publisher:  Bloomsbury USA  Length:   400 pages Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis What if everything you think you know about addiction is wrong? Johann Hari's journey into the heart of the war on drugs led him to ask this question--and to write the book that gave rise to his viral TED talk, viewed more than 62 million times, and inspired the feature film  The United States vs. Billie Holiday  and the documentary series  The Fix .  One of Johann Hari's earliest memories is of trying to wake up one of his relatives and not being able to. As he grew older, he realized he had addiction in his family. Confused, not knowing what to do, he set out and traveled over 30,000 miles over three y...