Addict Nation

In her *New York Times* bestselling book, *iWant,* Jane Velez-Mitchell, host of HLN's *Issues* detailed how her addictive personality infiltrated her life and led her to overconsume everything from alcohol to food to work to spending. Now, in her trademark no-holds-barred style, Jane targets our entire culture, calling it a Nation of Addicts—arguing that Americans have collectively become dependent on and devoted to certain dysfunctions (including ** crime, incarceration, war, overconsumption, overpopulation, prescription drug dependency, food addiction, sexual exploitation, cruelty, and obsessive cleanliness),

When enough people are hooked on the same substance or behavior, it crosses the line into a cultural addiction *.* According to Velez-Mitchell, media, government, and the private sector are also culturally hooked on these destructive customs and therefore justify, romanticize, and promote them--in essence, becoming 'pushers.'

In *Addict Nation,* Jane Velez-Mitchell calls attention to the collective denial society lives in about their addictions and overconsumption and confronts America to look at its bad behavior for what it really is: compulsive and self-destructive. In other words, *Addict Nation* is an intervention *.* It will shock addicts out of denial and inspire them to get help and get well.

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