Most of us fundamentally misunderstand the nature of drug addiction—and relatively little of the draw is due to the chemicals themselves, even the most powerful ones like heroine. To get a wonderfully distilled explanation, check out the above top-notch animation.
If you want to listen to a longer version of this argument, the author of the book, Chasing the Scream, Hari Johaann did a popular TED talk.
This video was previously published on www.theatlantic.com
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