Can Connection Cure Addiction?

"It is now one hundred years since drugs were first banned -- and all through this long century of waging war on drugs, we have been told a story about addiction...This story is so deeply ingrained in our minds that we take it for granted: There are strong chemical hooks in these drugs, so if we stopped on day twenty-one, our bodies would need the chemical. We would have a ferocious craving. We would be addicted. That's what addiction means." The best way to win the drug war might not be police or prisons, argues the author of this article, instead, we should strive to reduce feelings of isolation.

http://www.dailygood.org/story/998/can-connection-cure-addiction-johann-hari/