My review of Johann Hari's book, chasing shouts

The opposite of addiction is not awake - it is the connection
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  ~John Harry ~

A few days after a president announced that he thought the drug dealer should be executed, I discovered the existence of the book. He could have established a close relationship with Harry Anslinger, the chief architect and supporter of the drug war that took root in the 1930s. He believes that illegal drugs are evil, as do people who sell and use them. These two groups of people and drugs themselves have become targets of their elimination.

Harry wrote a large number of retired jazz singers and early drug Arnold Rothstein's Billy Holliday about Anslinger and the army he led and the death of heroin. In the course of this book, Hari also provided generous reports for drug users, drug dealers, police, drug users and researchers. He also recorded alternatives to research findings and drug wars.

Harry admits that it is difficult for him to give up the traditional wisdom of people who use drugs and drugs. He also believes that eradicating drugs is the only effective way to solve problems. I must admit that as a reader, I could not initially imagine watching drugs in any traditional way.

The author recorded the burden of the drug war on society and made social problems more serious than when drugs were legal. He clearly pointed out how much we learned from the ban. With the advent of the ban, the crime rate has increased significantly, and with the end of the ban, the crime rate has fallen. However, we have seen the best way to deal with illegal drugs, just as we take the same path as alcohol. Although the subtitle of Hari's book is "the first and last day of the drug war," in my opinion, the last days are not clear.

However, research and social experiments have shown that there are reasonable alternatives. Studying with animals and later discovering that addiction is mainly not due to the nature of the substance ingested. A greater contribution to addiction is a lack of value, a lack of social connections and a lack of usefulness to society. As Gabor Maté puts it: "The core of addiction is not what you swallow or inject - it is the pain in your mind." Harry also brought about the effects of institutional racism, leading to the use of colored people.

The author also details the success of national projects such as Switzerland and Portugal, as well as efforts to legalize drugs in various ways in Colorado and Washington. These methods often involve monitoring the use of drugs in combination with counseling to help users improve their self-awareness, begin to feel humans again, and find a way to contribute to society.

This book is presented in a narrative way, giving you a personal feeling of understanding all aspects of the problem. After considering this issue as a very long tradition of eradicating problems, it may be difficult for you to change your perception of drugs, drugs and users. Approaching it in this way leads to social and economic social loss. I suggest you try this book. If you choose, you can always go back to the original way of thinking, but if you have any humanitarian orientation, I have a feeling that you will learn to think about it differently.

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