Johann Hari’s new book explores how depression can be linked to social isolation {$excerpt:n} Famous for his “big think” book Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs, award-winning British journalist Johann Hari has … Source: Chasing the Scream
Solving Drugs {$excerpt:n} Check out the book Chasing The Scream by Johann Hari to have your eyes thrust open and your mind fully blown. However — there’s always a … Source: Chasing the Scream
Dr. Lisa Schenitzki challenges addiction stereotypes during campus workshop {$excerpt:n} … according to the British Journal of Criminology by 50 percent,” said Hari, the author of “Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on … Source: Chasing the Scream
Johann Hari on How the “Junk Values” of Neoliberalism Drive Depression and Anxiety in the US {$excerpt:n} Well, Johann Hari joins us now from Washington, D.C. He is a writer and a journalist. His book on depression is called Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression—and the Unexpected Solutions. His previous book, Chasing…
Could prescription heroin be the next step in treating addiction? | Opinion {$excerpt:n} Through Siegel’s book, and in his interviews in Johann Hari’s book Chasing the Scream, Siegel explains that people who use drugs aren’t bad; they’re just human. Unfortunately, though, for 10 percent of us here in the United States, that little buzz…
Are ‘junk values’ making us depressed? {$excerpt:n} Hari left the UK Independent in 2011 after he admitted plagiarising the work of other writers and editing the Wikipedia pages of people he had clashed with. He has since written a New York Times bestselling book, Chasing the Scream, and delivered a TED talk that has…
Dreamers Target Disneyland During Govt Shutdown {$excerpt:n} Then we’ll spend the rest of the hour with author Johann Hari, an award-winning journalist and author of the best-selling book Chasing the Scream. Hari has written a new and powerful book which he will discuss on our show. It’s called Lost Connections: Uncovering The Real Causes…
Letter: Drug-dependent people respond better to compassion than punishment {$excerpt:n} It might behoove them and the general public to read “Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs,” and to watch Michael Moore’s movie, “Where to Invade Next.” What author Johann Hari discovered is that drug-dependent people respond more…
Swinging the Pendulum on Marijuana {$excerpt:n} He said African-Americans and Latinos were the primary users of marijuana, and even connected the drug to jazz musicians whom he said were creating “Satanic” music because of their use of cannabis, according to author Johann Hari, who wrote “Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of…
Lost Connections sees Johann Hari probe the real causes of depression to find enduring solutions {$excerpt:n} With 2015’s Chasing the Scream, British journalist Johann Hari laid out a compelling case against the war on drugs. Prohibition is more harmful than the drugs themselves, he argued. Core to that thesis is what Hari describes as…
