Chasing the Scream

Chasing the Scream

by

Johann Hari

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Alcohol Prohibition

Alcohol Prohibition in the U.S., which lasted from 1920 to 1933, shows that the drug war’s harmful effects were foreseeable and that the real motive behind it has more often been powerful people’s political…

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Screaming

Screams represent the drug war’s pointless strategy of fighting trauma by creating even more trauma. Through this misguided strategy, the drug war exacerbates the problems it claims to be solving.

The scream from the…

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