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.
"The book is a heartfelt contribution to a debate over drugs policy that continues to rage today", Miranda Collinge Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP/Getty Images
