TY  - BOOK
AU  - Courtwright, David T., 1952- author.
TI  - The age of addiction
SN  - 9780674737372
PY  - 2019///
CY  - 
PB  - The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
KW  - RC INTERNAL MEDICINE
KW  - Compulsive behavior
KW  - Capitalism
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - Hedonism
KW  - Advertising
KW  - Psychology
KW  -  Pathological
N1  - how bad habits became big business; Newfound pleasures; Mass pleasures--; Liberating enslaving pleasures--; Anti-vice activism--; Pro-vice activism--; Food addictions--; Digital addictions--; Against excess.--
N2  - We live in an age of addiction, from compulsive gaming and shopping to binge eating and opioid abuse. What can we do to resist temptations that insidiously and deliberately rewire our brains? Nothing, David Courtwright says, unless we understand the global enterprises whose 'limbic capitalism' creates and caters to our bad habits.--Provided by publisher
ER  -