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The Age of Addiction: How Bad Habits Became Big Business
Written by David T. Courtwright
Narrated by Qarie Marshall
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This authoritative history reveals how global businesses have targeted the human brain's reward center, driving us to addiction and creating alarming social consequences.
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David T. Courtwright
David T. Courtwright is Presidential Professor at the University of North Florida and the author of Dark Paradise: A History of Opiate Addiction in America and Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World. He was an inaugural recipient of the highly competitive NEH Public Scholar Grant and is a regular media commentator on the history of addiction. He currently resides in northern Florida.
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