The Age of Addiction

How Bad Habits Became Big Business

Nonfiction, Health & Well Being, Psychology, Addictions, History, World History, Modern
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Author: David T. Courtwright ISBN: 9780674239258
Publisher: Harvard University Press Publication: May 6, 2019
Imprint: Harvard University Press Language: English
Author: David T. Courtwright
ISBN: 9780674239258
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication: May 6, 2019
Imprint: Harvard University Press
Language: English

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.

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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.

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