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Johann Hari

Chasing the Scream

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  • Roberto Garzahas quoted4 years ago
    the start of my journey, I set out to find an answer to a contradiction within myself, and within our culture—between the impulse to be compassionate to addicts, and the impulse to crush and destroy our addictive impulses. Now, at last, I see—and really feel—that it is not a contradiction at all. A compassionate approach leads to less addiction. The conflict within me—the one I found so disturbing—is not a conflict at all. It’s not a question of one impulse winning over the other. They can both win—if we just do it right
  • Roberto Garzahas quoted4 years ago
    the chemical is to blame, and if only we could eradicate the chemical, we could eradicate the problem
  • Roberto Garzahas quoted4 years ago
    That’s when coca tea was replaced by powder cocaine, and Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup was replaced by injectable heroin
  • Roberto Garzahas quoted4 years ago
    The war on drugs makes it almost impossible for drug users to get milder forms of their drug—and it pushes them inexorably toward harder drugs
  • Roberto Garzahas quoted4 years ago
    The answer doesn’t lie in access. It lies in agony. Outbreaks of drug addiction have always taken place, he proved, when there was a sudden rise is isolation and distress—from the gin-soaked slums of London in the eighteenth century to the terrified troops in Vietnam
  • Roberto Garzahas quoted4 years ago
    toxic drinks like Billie Holiday’s favorite, White Lightning, a booze so strong that even hard-core alcoholics would turn it down today
  • Roberto Garzahas quoted4 years ago
    But that’s only the first step: it’s the bandage that stops the hemorrhaging. Then
  • Roberto Garzahas quoted4 years ago
    If you can prescribe opiates for back pain, why can’t you prescribe them for psychological pain
  • Roberto Garzahas quoted4 years ago
    Nobody, she explained to me, swallows 80 mg of Oxycontin prescribed by their doctor and goes out to commit a crime, or dies of an overdose. No: it’s when the doctor realizes the patient is an addict and cuts them off that all the trouble begins
  • Roberto Garzahas quoted4 years ago
    Meghan Ralston, one of the leading experts on this crisis, explained to me: They don’t begin when the drugs are prescribed. They begin when the prescriptions are cut off.
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