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The Age of Addiction How Bad Habits Became Big Business

David T. Courtwright

From a leading expert on addiction, a provocative, singularly authoritative history of how sophisticated global businesses have targeted the human brain’s reward centers, driving us to addictions ranging from oxycodone to Big Macs to We live in an age of addiction, from compulsive gaming and shoppi...

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The Ezra Klein Show

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The Ezra Klein Show

The book chronicles how modern economies create limitless, addictive products that hijack our brains.

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And I think that we have an incredible book called The Age of Addiction by David Courtwright.

— Episode: ‘Our Kids Are the Least Flourishing Gene...

Episode: ‘Our Kids Are the Least Flourishing Generation We...

The book chronicles how modern economies create limitless, addictive products that hijack our brains.

"

And I think that we have an incredible book called The Age of Addiction by David Courtwright.

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