London Thinks: Is Addiction a Disease? (at Conway Hall)
Channel: Conway Hall
Date: 17/07/2016

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In this talk, as part of Conway Hall's London Thinks series, Marc Lewis and Johann Hari discuss the stories of addiction and the war on drugs. Does the disease model do more harm than good – both to the research enterprise and to the lives of addicts themselves? They also argue that recovery from addiction is indeed possible.

[This debate was filmed at Conway Hall, London, in 2015]

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