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Narratives of Addiction - Savage Usury (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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Narratives of Addiction - Savage Usury (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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Narratives of Addiction: Savage Usury is the first book to argue,
in the face of more than a century's received wisdom, that drug
addiction and alcoholism are undoubtedly evidence of individual
moral flaws. However, the sense of morality that underlies this
book is completely severed from Christianity. Instead, it is
influenced in particular by the writings of the nineteenth-century
German philosophers Arthur Schopenhauer and Frederick Nietzsche,
both of whom insisted that a genuine morality was actually
incompatible with Christianity. The sequence of chapters moves from
addictions on the streets, into rehab clinics, and finally into the
meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous. This is
the first book to argue that the search for pleasure drives
alcoholism and drug addiction and not the "numbing of pain".
Throughout the book I reject the claims of the medical profession,
as embodied by the American Medical Association, that drug
addiction and alcoholism are diseases, and further argue that they
do not have the authority to tell hundreds of millions of Americans
that addiction is not a moral failing. I also query throughout the
book the claims of neuroscience, psychology, and the social
sciences that addictions to alcohol and drugs are attributable to
causes that their specific disciplines are best suited to
understand. I argue that there is nothing complex about addiction:
it is a simple behavioural disorder. The language routinely
employed to discuss addiction is similarly not complex, just
confused, and so it is also the rhetoric of addiction discourse,
especially its use of simile, metaphor and euphemism, that this
book evaluates.
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