This is an All-Ears English podcast episode 611. How Connection prevents addiction and what it means for your life.

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Now here are your hosts, Lindsay McMahon, the English adventurer, and Michelle Kaplan, the New York Radio Girl coming to you from

Boston and New York City, USA.

Today we discuss an interesting TED Talk about how connection between people can reduce addiction in a community.

What can you learn from this

as you design your ideal lifestyle?

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What's going on, Michelle? How you feeling today? I'm good. How are you, Lindsey?

Oh, I'm feeling pretty good because I just found a really cool TED Talk that I thought was so kind of pertinent, so key, so on topic for our podcast because it's about connection and our podcast is all about connection.

Did you see it, Michelle?

I did, I did.

Thank you for sending that to me.

That was really, really interesting.

And for sure, it made me think of our podcast.

And we'll talk about why.

Yes, we will.

First of all, the name of the TED Talk guys is it's by

Johann Hari and it's called everything you think you know about addiction is wrong.

Okay. So speaking of addiction one thing that comes to mind when I think about addiction is it's really,

I think addiction right now, especially when it comes to drugs in the U.S. like heroin, for example,

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