People often outgrow drug and alcohol addiction. Alcoholics and drug addicts can learn to moderate their drinking or cut down on their drug use. People become addicted to alcohol and other drugs when life is going badly for them. Drug addicts and alcoholics can and often do find their own ways out of their addictions, without outside help. You have to rely on yourself to overcome an addiction.
Drug addiction is often a way of life people rely on to cope with, or avoid coping with, the world.
An Economic Romance by Russell Roberts Economists have made enormous progress at understanding and documenting the prodigious productive power of capitalism. The academic case for free markets is now largely won. But economists have had too little success at sharing their insights with a broad audience. Enter Russell Roberts, a scholar at Washington University's Weidenbaum Center . Roberts skillfully teaches the economic way of thinking with his engaging dialogue between Sam and Laura.