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In Praise Of Addiction: Or How We Can Learn To Love Dependency In A Damaged World
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A Transformative Way Of Understanding AddictionAnd An Invitation To Find Connection In The Pleasures Of Life We Know Are Bad For Uselizabeth Roberts Has Experienced The Suffering Wrought By Addiction: Her SisterS Destructive Alcoholism And Dependency On Prescription Drugs, Her MotherS Hoarding, And Her Own Struggles With Binge Eating. As For So Many Of Us, Addiction Brought About SelfLoathing, Reflecting Her Individual Failure To Exercise SelfControl, To Keep It Together. But During Her Fieldwork Studying Chemical Exposure In Mexico City, Her Sense Of Addiction Got Turned Upside Down. She Witnessed Her Neighbors, Both Young And Old, Defiantly Celebrate Their Compulsive Dependencies On Alcohol, Drugs, And Junk Food Instead Of Hiding Them In Shame. Roberts Began To Wonder If Everything She Thought She Knew About Addiction Was Wrong.In Praise Of Addiction Shares The Unexpected Journey That Led Roberts To A New Understanding Of Addiction. Taking Lessons From Her Years In Mexico City As Well As From Addiction Researchers, Harm Reduction Activists, And Scholars Of Religion, Philosophy, And Anthropology, Roberts Pays Close Attention To The External Forces That So Often Fuel The Damage Of Addiction. As Her Neighbors In Mexico City Suggest, The Adverse Health Effects Brought On By Their Dependencies On CocaCola, Processed Foods, Drugs, And Alcohol Have More To Do With The Ongoing Effects Of The Drug War And Nafta Than Any Personal Failings. Taking Up This Ecological Framework, Roberts Draws A Line Between Vice That Isolates And Addiction That Connects, A Distinction She Movingly Integrates Into Her Own Life And Family, Making A Case For Sharing In The PleasuresAnd SufferingOf Dependency.Provocative And Deeply Humane, In Praise Of Addiction Invites Readers To Cast Aside The Shame, SelfHatred, And Judgment Associated With Addiction And Discover How Dependency Can Serve As A Binding Force Worthy Of Our Most Profound Devotion.
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