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    The Age of Addiction: How Bad Habits Became Big Business

    Written by David T. Courtwright

    Narrated by Qarie Marshall

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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.

    The Age of Addiction chronicles the triumph of “limbic capitalism”, the growing network of competitive businesses targeting the brain pathways responsible for feeling, motivation, and long-term memory. We see its success in Steve Wynn’s groundbreaking casinos and Purdue Pharma’s pain pills, in McDonald’s engineered burgers and Tencent video games from China. All capitalize on the ancient quest to discover, cultivate, and refine new and habituating pleasures.

    Courtwright holds out hope that limbic capitalism can be contained by organized opposition from across the political spectrum. Progressives, nationalists, and traditionalists have worked together against the purveyors of addiction before. They could do it again.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamscape Media Audio
    Release dateMay 6, 2019
    ISBN9781974951840
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    David T. Courtwright

    David T. Courtwright is Presidential Professor at the University of North Florida and the author of Dark Paradise: A History of Opiate Addiction in America and Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World. He was an inaugural recipient of the highly competitive NEH Public Scholar Grant and is a regular media commentator on the history of addiction. He currently resides in northern Florida.

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    • 4/5
      I thought it was more about addiction and causes rather than the business pushing it. Still an excellent read, but not what I was looking for.