What really causes addiction — to everything from cocaine to smart-phones? And how can we overcome it? Johann Hari has seen our current methods fail …
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I hope the governments will wake up, realize that their approach to addiction is not working, look at how the COVID crisis is affecting their people, and begin to change.
Grandma didnt become dependent I am assuming because a doctor would reduce the dosage by the week not just stop unless it was a short period of use of the opioid
Great speech. Absolutely brilliant. The words he said made so much sense. Addicts don’t need to be told to stop or your life will end. They need to be heard and listened to and made to feel just like a normal sober person. It’s scary if you’re an addict and you’re talking to someone who is clean. You’re fearful of that sober person. Addiction shouldn’t be frowned upon, it should be made normalised. Humans must help each other for better or worse. Let’s live together not hate each-other.
So many excuses lol. Drug addicts are not victims. They choose that destructive path. They risk death from overdose everytime they decide to do drugs. Which means they don’t care about their own life, so why should anyone else? No sympathy or empathy for drug addicts. They put themselves in that situation so they deserve whatever happens to them
I agree that loneliness can cause addiction but unless they are prepared to help themselves no one else can. They just cause misery to the ones who love them and feel helpless because you see what it's doing and how they are wasting their lives
I personally believe drug addicts use to compensate for the lack of love, possible guilt, trauma and stress. I know that when I sober up on occasion I feel like the whole world is coming down on me, the feeling of remorse, guilt and stress floods back into my brain and even though I feel I can handle these emotions I think subconsciously my brain is saying just take a hit and you'll feel happy and normal again. I really wish I could just stop using and have a normal, happy life but every time I try the addiction takes over. I know this may sound extremely obvious but there's definitely more to addiction than we understand and our world could be ten fold better if we didn't have this problem in society.
So yesterday was my first try, I hurted myself to feel better, also to get attention and love, It sounds so disgusting. I AM NOT DOING IT AGAIN, I hope..
I see this exact scenario in my son’s life. He has boarder line personality issue and finding people to interact with is quiet challenging for him. His life is a dead end. He gets high to not feel anything 😞😢
Has a portuguese my whole family were heroin and crack addicts… when i was a kid i remember thinking this is will not affect my personality, the true is that it changed me a lot and for bad, im the angriest negative Person i know
I asked my uncle a lot of times why he did it and he just said to me cause its my lifestyle whats the problem im not interfering with anyone ( not the reality), Just to say its not okay to say ok to being an addict… my uncle and my mother are dead now, i tried so many times to change them in a good way till i arrived the point that i quited, i told my mother she will be not my mother if she keeps smoking crack, i leaved the country never talked to them again and they are dead now, and its strange to say i never regreted it…. Guess only i know what ive been thru because of them, its not anymore in my power to change the bad person i am today
well this hits home starting since the first quarantine i have been drinking and drinking, cause you know everything is closed, just a couple shops open, no sport (i can't train with my club, gyms are closed), no bars, no movie theaters, no restaurants. for me 5 years later this showed it's first proof for me personally. let's see how it develops once everything goes back to normal
I hope the governments will wake up, realize that their approach to addiction is not working, look at how the COVID crisis is affecting their people, and begin to change.
Eye opening!!! He's so on point!
so beautiful, thank you!!
But you have to get out of the cage
Great talk on the subject. Food for thought
Love it!
Imma go do 7 lines RN 💥🤣🤣🤣🤣
Recovering addict here! This is interesting!
Grandma didnt become dependent I am assuming because a doctor would reduce the dosage by the week not just stop unless it was a short period of use of the opioid
That's true if ex addicted are put in rite path I think legalising drugs would stop addicts because it's no longer allowed ..stop jail
Lot people who have addictions use together…
Sooo we should be rats!🐀
little bollocks
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Great speech. Absolutely brilliant. The words he said made so much sense. Addicts don’t need to be told to stop or your life will end. They need to be heard and listened to and made to feel just like a normal sober person. It’s scary if you’re an addict and you’re talking to someone who is clean. You’re fearful of that sober person. Addiction shouldn’t be frowned upon, it should be made normalised. Humans must help each other for better or worse. Let’s live together not hate each-other.
So many excuses lol. Drug addicts are not victims. They choose that destructive path. They risk death from overdose everytime they decide to do drugs. Which means they don’t care about their own life, so why should anyone else? No sympathy or empathy for drug addicts. They put themselves in that situation so they deserve whatever happens to them
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Too good to be true…
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I agree that loneliness can cause addiction but unless they are prepared to help themselves no one else can. They just cause misery to the ones who love them and feel helpless because you see what it's doing and how they are wasting their lives
who else clicked on this thinking it was Chandler?
they become addicts noticed your opiod crisis? oh god this is so bad
Very good indeed.
Since I've watched it Jan last year, I come back from now and then. What a message!
I personally believe drug addicts use to compensate for the lack of love, possible guilt, trauma and stress. I know that when I sober up on occasion I feel like the whole world is coming down on me, the feeling of remorse, guilt and stress floods back into my brain and even though I feel I can handle these emotions I think subconsciously my brain is saying just take a hit and you'll feel happy and normal again. I really wish I could just stop using and have a normal, happy life but every time I try the addiction takes over. I know this may sound extremely obvious but there's definitely more to addiction than we understand and our world could be ten fold better if we didn't have this problem in society.
America knows this but still does nothing what a great country to live in and protect.
Thanks man! You made me try heroin and it was totally cool.
EVEN WORSE NOW BECAUSE OF QUARANTINE
So yesterday was my first try, I hurted myself to feel better, also to get attention and love,
It sounds so disgusting.
I AM NOT DOING IT AGAIN,
I hope..
I see this exact scenario in my son’s life. He has boarder line personality issue and finding people to interact with is quiet challenging for him. His life is a dead end. He gets high to not feel anything 😞😢
Has a portuguese my whole family were heroin and crack addicts… when i was a kid i remember thinking this is will not affect my personality, the true is that it changed me a lot and for bad, im the angriest negative Person i know
I asked my uncle a lot of times why he did it and he just said to me cause its my lifestyle whats the problem im not interfering with anyone ( not the reality), Just to say its not okay to say ok to being an addict… my uncle and my mother are dead now, i tried so many times to change them in a good way till i arrived the point that i quited, i told my mother she will be not my mother if she keeps smoking crack, i leaved the country never talked to them again and they are dead now, and its strange to say i never regreted it…. Guess only i know what ive been thru because of them, its not anymore in my power to change the bad person i am today
Self preservation is powerful. Those who are tired of being manipulated are preserving themselves by separating from teh addict who is using them.
Why did I think that was Matthew Perry from the thumbnail?
Social media is cancer
Wow Epic Speech
Seriously made me cry as an Addict and now getting sober I needed to hear
Thank you
I cant even find hard drugs
I cant even find drugs
well this hits home starting since the first quarantine i have been drinking and drinking, cause you know everything is closed, just a couple shops open, no sport (i can't train with my club, gyms are closed), no bars, no movie theaters, no restaurants. for me 5 years later this showed it's first proof for me personally. let's see how it develops once everything goes back to normal
best ted talk no cap