The Age of Addiction: How Bad Habits Became Big Business

by David T. Courtwright

Book Overview

From a leading expert on addiction, a provocative, singularly authoritative history of how sophisticated global businesses have targeted the human brain's reward centers, driving us to addictions ranging from oxycodone to Big Macs to Assassin's Creed to Snapchat--with alarming social consequences.

We live in an age of addiction, from compulsive gaming and shopping to binge eating and opioid abuse. Sugar can be as habit-forming...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674737377
• ISBN13: 9780674737372
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.8" x 8.3"