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We live in an age of addiction, from compulsive gaming and shopping to binge eating and opioid abuse. Sugar can be as habit-forming as cocaine, researchers tell us, and social media apps are hooking our kids. But what can we do to resist temptations that insidiously and deliberately rewire our brains? Nothing, David Courtwright says, unless we understand the history and character of the global enterprises that create and cater to our bad habits.

Author Dirk Eldredge demonstates how the drug war has led only to overcrowded courts and prisons, rising crime, official corruption, eroded civil rights and race relations, and new public-health crises. He makes the case for an alternative strategy: tightly controlled legalization accompanied by expanded drug education, prevention, research, and treatment programs.

"Candid, empathetic portraits of silenced men, women, and children." --Kirkus Widely acclaimed photographer and writer Chris Arnade shines new light on America's poor, drug-addicted, and forgotten--both urban and rural, blue state and red state--and indicts the elitists who've left them behind...

Deepwater Horizon was supposed to be the cutting edge of energy exploration: drilling 5,000 feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, the $560 million rig would be indispensable in helping to solve the ongoing energy crisis. Then, on April 20, 2010, BP’s dismal safety record came home to roost.

La réduction des risques au service de l’accueil inconditionnel est un podcast de la Fédération Addiction et de la Fédération des Acteurs de la Solidarité, réalisé avec le soutien de la Fondation de France, qui donne la parole aux professionnels et nous entraîne à leurs côtés, pour mieux débattre, apprendre et inventer ensemble des solutions… Apparue dans les années 80, la Réduction des Risques, couramment appelée R.D.R. est une approche qui se développe maintenant dans les Centres d’Hébergement. Son but : garantir l’accueil inconditionnel des personnes ayant une...