Reddit reviews Chasing the Scream: The Opposite of Addiction is Connection

She was hounded by the government.

I encourage everyone to read Johann Hari's book Chasing the Scream about the history of the drug war from the 1920s to the present.

He has an extended piece about Holiday and her place as a scapegoat for Harry Anslinger, head of the Bureau of Narcotics.

Here's an excerpt from the book about Holiday. If you have any interest in the drug war or history thereof, I highly recommend it.

You are wrong. After the prohibition ended, the mafia did greatly diminish and murders and violent crimes from them almost dissipated entirely overnight.

Of course it will take time for the gangs to greatly diminish, but it will happen.

I recommend reading Chasing the Scream for more in-debth research on this subject.

Every part of our system is for-profit industry. The FDA works with Legal Drug Makers; the DEA stops illegal drugs.

There is a union of companies that support the drug war; just as there are other companies and entities that support the war on drugs.

If you like good books; http://www.amazon.com/Chasing-Scream-First-Last-Drugs/dp/1620408910 is pretty good.

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This is the only solution. The only way to end the drug war is to end the drug war. For anyone who can’t comprehend this please take some time to really consider the other side of the argument. I suggest starting here with the most eye opening book you’ll ever read on the subject.

For questions 1 and 2, read this book:

About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior
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Hackworth goes into extreme detail on the problems with how the Vietnam war was lead including McNamara's obsession with body counts as an indicator of victory.

For question 4, read this book:

Chasing the Scream: The Opposite of Addiction is Connection
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Hari goes into detail on why sodiers in Vietnam did drugs and why the majority of them were able to stop once the war was over. There is little connection between Afghanistan and the current opioid crisis at least as far as soldiers working in a region with opium is concerned.

As far as the question about communication equipment vs yelling, there are several good reasons for yelling as opposed to using coms. First, yelling ALWAYS works. Unless you get shot in your airway, you can almost always yell commands. Coms can breakdown or get lost, broadcasts can be jammed. Coms are expensive, yelling is free. Yelling is also localized. Troops 100 meters away do not hear it effectively but close troops can. Coms broadcast to everyone on the frequency regardless of range. Coms also do not distinguish who is speaking unless call signs are used. If every troop had coms, they couldn't all start talking. They would have to wait their turn. In a firefight, waiting may mean death or worse. Special operators do use sophisticated coms as they approach a target, but still fall back on yelling while in a localized fire fight.

It's a random recommendation but I quite liked "Chasing the scream" by Johann Hari

https://www.amazon.com/Chasing-Scream-Opposite-Addiction-Connection/dp/1620408910


How literate is he? For beginner maybe this book, looks cool. It's called Two Cheers for Anarchism: Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity, and Meaningful Work and Play

https://www.amazon.com/Two-Cheers-Anarchism-Autonomy-Meaningful-ebook/dp/B0091XBYWK/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=anarchism&qid=1568494157&s=books&sr=1-3


More serious book is like this one (has more history and such) https://www.amazon.com/Anarchism-Theory-Practice-Daniel-Gu%C3%A9rin/dp/0853451753/ref=sr_1_8?keywords=anarchism&qid=1568494157&s=books&sr=1-8

If I may add my own recommendations to the list as well:

• Stone Butch Blues is an incredible, slightly heartbreaking, informative, interesting story about growing up trans starting in the (I think) 50s, and deals with gender identity, LGBTQ issues, feminism across the ages, etc. I cannot recommend it highly enough! Another summary is here.
  
  
• Chasing the Scream is a very well-researched look into the 'War on Drugs' and into drug policy, and it's written in a very engaging way. It's incredibly informative and I think everyone should read it, regardless of their personal stance on drugs. (The author has had some credibility issues before, but I believe he did this book after and thus everything is well-backed up).
  
  
• If you like sci-fi, Seveneves is amazing, hard (as in science-y, less so fantasy in space) sci-fi about saving mankind. The key characters are women, and it has some unique ideas.
  
  
• The Laundry Files are fun, easy to read modern fantasy (UK Civil Service meets spy film meets Cthulu?).
  
  
• Finally, Brandon Sanderson and Patrick Rothfuss are both great fantasy writers. :)

At the risk of repeating myself ad nauseam in this thread allow me to suggest "Chasing the Scream" by Johann Hari. It is pretty much regarded as the source regarding this topic.

Chasing the Scream by Johann Hari and In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts by Gabor Mate are my suggestions.

You should read the book "Chasing the Scream". It's makes a very very good argument against prohibition. You won't look at the drug problem the same again.

https://www.amazon.com/Chasing-Scream-First-Last-Drugs/dp/1620408910

It would be a start, but if we really want to reduce deaths and crime, we should be supplying addicts with safe opioids.

I was somewhat impresses that the NS report didn't contain a bunch of 'more enforcement' items though. I guess that's setting the bar pretty low, but there's been a lot of talk in different levels of government on attempting to reduce the supply of opioids, which will just increase costs (and therefore related crime), and increase potency (no one smuggled beer during prohibition).

If anyone would like an interesting read on the topic, I recommend:

Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs

A printed version just for you: Chasing the Scream.

"Most dangerous" might or might not have been a slight exaggeration on my part, but not much. As for how things change when a substance is legalized, Chasing the Scream will tell you all about how and why use of heroin and other drugs has plummeted since becoming legal in Portugal.

Read Chasing the Scream http://amzn.to/2hzr4nk and Acid Dreams http://amzn.to/2hkDSlm to get a full picture of why we are where we are now.

What others are saying is right. It's a political move to criminalize minorities and rebellious youth cultures.

I recommend the book Chasing the Scream for anyone interesting in learning more about this subject, how the war on drugs started, how different countries have dealt with the problem, and stories of individuals who have been deeply affected by the war on all different sides.

legalize those too.

Not sure how to notify like everyone in this whole comment thread, but if anyone is at all interested by the questions here please read this:

Chasing the Scream by Johann Hari

If you haven’t read Chasing the Scream, it is fascinating and touches on this topic.

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Highly recommend reading "Chasing the Scream" for the history of the war on drugs in the US. It offers a few case studies for solutions at the end - pointing to a state by state legalization or a complete legalization like Portugal. Hari is an unbeatable writer, too.

Also important to note that a lot of drug use is caused by mental illness.

I've recently been reading the book Chasing the Scream by Johann Hari, it's a very good look into how the War on Drugs and our demonization of addicts has only caused more pain and suffering than open drug policies would have caused.

Seems like this thread is very full of right-wingers who believe mentally ill people should just be locked up but I commend you for the enormous task you're undertaking. I wish you the best of luck dude