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Everything you think you know about addiction is wrong | Johann Hari | TED
Johann Hari's TED talk arguing that addiction is driven largely by disconnection and environment rather than chemical hooks alone. He draws on his personal experience with addicted relatives and on research and policy examples from around the world.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN commenters quote it for the line that the opposite of addiction is connection, and recommend it as a more plausible account of addiction than the standard model.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- TED
- Topic
- addiction
- Format
- talk
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 5
- HN mentions in dataset
- 7
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2017–2025
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.
This is my favourite addiction talk. Everything you think you know about addiction is wrong | Johann Hari [VIDEO]
doubleshame on Hacker News · 2017-08
In 'Body Brokers' Get Kickbacks to Lure People with Addictions to Bad RehabI'm going to chip in here as I feel I'm qualified to do so as a recovering hard drug addict (clean almost a year). Addiction like most human conditions is complex, to debate this article it helps to have a clearer understanding of what causes …
DisposableMoi on Hacker News · 2017-06
In Ohio Sues 5 Major Drug Companies For 'Fueling Opioid Epidemic'Reminds me of this TED talk: [VIDEO] "Everything you think you know about addiction is wrong" , where he asserts that addiction isn't caused by the things we typically correlate with it. I was going to try to summarize, but I don't think I can …
dkersten on Hacker News · 2021-08
In Once an Addict, Always an Addict?
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.