What Would You Do Alone in a Cage with Nothing but Cocaine?
Hanna Pickard
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What Would You Do Alone in a Cage with Nothing but Cocaine?

A Philosophy of Addiction

Illustrator: Venniro, Marco
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A revolutionary new paradigm for understanding addictionWhy do people with addiction use drugs self-destructively? Why don't they quit out of self-concern? Why does the rat in the experiment, alone in a cage, press the lever again and again for cocaine-to the point of death? In this pathbreaking book, Hanna Pickard proposes a new paradigm for understanding the puzzle of addiction. For too long, our thinking has been hostage to a false dichotomy: either addiction is a brain disease, or it is a moral failing. Pickard argues that it is neither, and that both models stifle addiction research and f...