Johann Hari: everything we thought we know about addiction & Drug War is Wrong/ Billie Holiday

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Katie Halper

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🗓️ 6 November 2015

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

On this episode we talk to Johann Hari about his book Chasing the Scream and why everything we thought we know about drugs, addiction and the war on drugs is wrong. Plus, what's Billie Holiday gotta do with it? Find out on this episode! It's really not hyperbole to say that this book will change the way you think about drugs, addiction and the war on drugs. Get the book that Naomi Klein calls, “Superb journalism and thrilling story-telling," Noam Chomsky calls, “Wonderful… I couldn’t put it down,” and Amy Goodman calls “An astounding book." if you donate $125 you get a copy of "Chasing the Scream." http://www.give2wbai.org/product_p/nb0093.htm. An even better deal is paying $25 more and getting "Chasing the Scream" AND "Between The World and Me." http://www.give2wbai.org/product_p/pb0672.htm

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0:00.0	Hello and
0:15.0	your host Katie helper show I'm your host Katie helper if it's a Wednesday and at 6 p.m.
0:19.0	it's the Katie helper show that's all that's going on in the entire world. I'm here with my
0:25.1	co-host Gabe Pacheco. Hi, great to see you again Katie. You too, Gabe.
0:29.6	Present again. Clear and present. Clear and present danger.
0:33.4	And of course, on the keyboards of engineering
0:38.0	positivity is Reggie Johnson.
0:41.8	Hey guys. What's up, Reggie? Katie. Uh, hey guys.
0:43.0	What's up, Katie?
0:44.0	Hey Reg.
0:45.0	Gabe, what's up.
0:46.0	Reggie's wearing a Kedafi teacher.
0:50.0	It's a retro Kedafi shirt.
0:51.6	It's a play on, remember thing remember that ad campaign years ago called
0:56.1	Come Back to Jamaica. Yeah come back to Libya and they had and there's like two fighter jets in the background.
1:04.5	Can't go wrong with Kadaana.
1:06.0	You know, it can't do, it can't go wrong with Kadafi.
1:08.8	And I think that the listening audience here on WBAI actually. They actually may think that yeah that's the
1:17.1	yeah that's the ironic thing of my enemy is my friend right that's right
1:21.6	though it was a lot more stable country.
1:24.0	No, sure, yeah, I don't think it was a good move what we do with him.
1:27.0	Anyway, and he does think Obama, he did think Obama was Muslim by the way, that's not in a bad way no he was like
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