What Would You Do Alone in a Cage with Nothing but Cocaine?

A revolutionary new paradigm for understanding addictionWhy do people with addiction use drugs self-destructively? Why don't they quit out of self-concern? Why does the rat in the experiment, alone in a cage, press the lever again and again for cocaineto the point of death? In this pathbreaking book, Hanna Pickard proposes a new paradigm for understanding the puzzle of addiction. For too long, our...