workingonit
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Hello All,
Here are two talks that I came across when looking into addiction and how it and addicts are perceived.
The first Ted Talk 'Everything you think you know about addiction is wrong. Johanh Hari.' is all about general ways to understand why people are addicted. See below for one of the discussion points.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY9DcIMGxMs
Heroine was widely used during the vietnam war. There was great concern that there would be a nationwide epidemic when the vets returned home but the greater majority just blended back into society.
The classic addiction study was putting one rat in a cage. In one bottle there was water and cocaine, in the other bottle was just water. The rat finished the cocaine off and left the one that was just water. This was seen as the test to determine is something was addictive or not. Recently the study was done again but differently.
In the cage was placed numerous rats, runs, food, toys, games. The water bottle and water/cocaine bottles were used again but the rats barely touched the cocaine. This was seen to be because they were social and able to occupy themselves with eating, playing, having sex excetera.
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The second one just goes deeper and is also really interesting with a discussion between Naomi Klein and Johann Hari.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xh-oDdmv_GM&t=576s
I hope you enjoy these, please let me know.
Cheers!
Here are two talks that I came across when looking into addiction and how it and addicts are perceived.
The first Ted Talk 'Everything you think you know about addiction is wrong. Johanh Hari.' is all about general ways to understand why people are addicted. See below for one of the discussion points.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY9DcIMGxMs
Heroine was widely used during the vietnam war. There was great concern that there would be a nationwide epidemic when the vets returned home but the greater majority just blended back into society.
The classic addiction study was putting one rat in a cage. In one bottle there was water and cocaine, in the other bottle was just water. The rat finished the cocaine off and left the one that was just water. This was seen as the test to determine is something was addictive or not. Recently the study was done again but differently.
In the cage was placed numerous rats, runs, food, toys, games. The water bottle and water/cocaine bottles were used again but the rats barely touched the cocaine. This was seen to be because they were social and able to occupy themselves with eating, playing, having sex excetera.
-------
The second one just goes deeper and is also really interesting with a discussion between Naomi Klein and Johann Hari.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xh-oDdmv_GM&t=576s
I hope you enjoy these, please let me know.
Cheers!
