RSA - Addiction: What to Do When Everything Else has Failed

Addiction: What to Do When Everything Else has Failed

22nd Mar 2011; 13:00

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The stark reality is that, beginning in the 19th century, western society has tried all the religious, coercive, medical, and compassionate solutions that we have on addiction but the problem is, if anything, getting worse.

Now what?

Distinguished psychologist Bruce Alexander argues that soon we will be forced to recognise the problem as social, rather than individual, and face the full implications of that realisation.

Speaker: Bruce Alexander, professor emeritus, department of psychology, Simon Fraser University and author of The Globalisation of Addiction (OUP, 2010).

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