Why people recommend it
Johann Hari's book Chasing the Scream explores the history and root causes of addiction, as well as the global war on drugs. Chris Williamson recommended the book on Modern Wisdom, stating that it fundamentally opened his mind to the idea of drug legalization and noting that he first learned about Switzerland's heroin program through its pages. Alfie Brown discussed the publication on Modern Wisdom while talking about mental health and environmental versus biological factors, while Ben Westhoff mentioned the work on The Joe Rogan Experience when discussing how people age out of drug addiction. Joe Rogan also referenced Hari's work on depression on a separate episode of the same podcast. In an interview on The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett, Johann Hari discussed the personal family background regarding addiction in his family that inspired him to write the book, and expressed his belief that it is the work he has authored that has done the most good in the world. Across these podcast episodes, speakers and the author highlighted the text's profound impact on reshaping public understanding of addiction and policy alternatives.
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Johann Hari — 2 mentions
“or chasing the screen my but before that um i had a kind of core question which was you know we had a lot of addiction in my family one of my earliest memories is of trying to wake up one of my relatives and not being able to um and i wanted to understand what causes addiction”
“oh chasing scream i have a really easy answer to that because only because um so chasing screams a book i wrote about the addiction and and the war on drugs and it's because it's the book that i've it sounds uh so fagrandizing and wanky but it's the book that i've seen do the most good in the world”
Chris Williamson — 2 mentions
“which means so i i first heard about the um switzerland heroin program from johann hari's chasing the stream”
“had it not been for me reading chasing the screen by johann i would have looked at why should we legalize drugs as a [ __ ] mental title”
Alfie Brown — 1 mention
“i'm reading a book a proof of johann hari's new book johann hari rose lost connections and chasing the scream”
Ben Westhoff — 1 mention
“like Johann Hari in his book he's been out here chasing The Scream”
Joe Rogan — 1 mention
“We had a podcast with a guy wrote a book on it a guy Johann Hari who wrote a book on depression”
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Other mentions (9: passing, ad reads, own books)
“So my first book, Chasing the Scream, yeah, we had a lot of addiction in my family.”
“So let's think about um my my book about um addiction and the war on drugs, chasing the scream.”
“and one thing that suggested to me is we talk about the book i wrote about addiction and and the war on drugs”
“and it got to the point where i was writing uh chasing the screen my book about the drug war about i guess i started eight years ago”
“so when he was a kid the book is called chasing the screen”
“uh chasing the scream is www.chasingthescream.com you can listen to audio overloads of the people we talked about”
“and which is based on my previous partly taken from my previous book chasing the screen which is about addiction”
“both of them required me to go all over the world and just look at really different places that do things really differently”
“and the other book we've talked about is chasing the screen which is about addiction”