Books Details
Author : Johann Hari Pages : 15 pages Publisher : Audible
Language : eng ISBN-10 : B00S5ASH9I ISBN-13 :
Books Descriptions
It is now one hundred years since drugs were first banned in
the United States. On the eve of this centenary, journalist
Johann Hari set off on an epic three-year, thirty-thousand-mile
journey into the war on drugs. What he found is that more and
more people all over the world have begun to recognize three
startling truths: Drugs are not what we think they are.
Addiction is not what we think it is. And the drug war has very
different motives to the ones we have seen on our TV screens
for so long.In Chasing the Scream, Hari reveals his discoveries
entirely through the stories of people across the world whose
lives have been transformed by this war. They range from a
transsexual crack dealer in Brooklyn searching for her mother,
to a teenage hit-man in Mexico searching for a way out. It
begins with Hari's discovery that at the birth of the drug war,
Billie Holiday was stalked and killed by the man who launched
this crusade--and it ends with the story of a brave doctor who
has led his
