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by Johann Hari

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Chasing the Scream is a comprehensive history of American drug policy. It is exhaustively cited and compellingly written. This book will alter your views on substance use and policy.

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The New York Times Bestseller

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 years to discover what really causes addiction--and what really solves it.

He uncovered a range of remarkable human stories--of how the war on drugs began with Billie Holiday, the great jazz singer, being stalked and killed by a racist policeman; of the scientist who discovered the surprising key to addiction; and of the countries that ended their own war on drugs--with extraordinary results.

Chasing the Scream is the story of a life-changing journey that transformed the addiction debate internationally--and showed the world that the opposite of addiction is connection.

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  • Title Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs
  • Author Johann Hari
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 400
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Bloomsbury USA, New York, NY
  • Publication date 2015-01-20
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index
  • ISBN 9781620408902 / 1620408902
  • Weight 1.45 lbs (0.66 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.2 x 1.4 in (23.62 x 15.75 x 3.56 cm)
  • Category Sociology
  • Library of Congress subjects Drug control - United States - History, Drug traffic - United States - History
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2014021633
  • Dewey Decimal Code 363.450

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  • Booklist, 02/01/2015, Page 5
  • Kirkus Reviews, 11/15/2014, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 11/01/2014, Page 100
  • New York Times Book Review, 02/15/2015, Page 14
  • Publishers Weekly, 10/20/2014, Page 0
  • Shelf Awareness, 01/27/2015, Page 0

About the author

Johann Hari is the author of Lost Connections. He was twice named Newspaper Journalist of the Year by Amnesty International UK. He has written for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and others, and he is a regular panelist on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher. His TED talk, "Everything You Think You Know About Addiction Is Wrong," and the animation based on it have more than twenty million views. Hari lives in London.
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