The Age of Addiction, How Bad Habits Became Big Business

The Age of Addiction, How Bad Habits Became Big Business
Authors
David T. Courtwright
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Size
40.38 MB
Lang
en
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We live in an age of addiction, from compulsive gaming and shopping to binge eating and opioid abuse. What can we do to resist temptations that insidiously and deliberately rewire our brains? Nothing, David Courtwright says, unless we understand the global enterprises whose "limbic capitalism" creates and caters to our bad habits.