By Jane Velez-Mitchell

 

This book targets our entire culture, calling it a Nation of Addicts - arguing that Americans have collectively become dependent on and devoted to certain dysfunctions including:

When enough people are hooked on the same substance or behavior, it crosses the line into a cultural addiction. According to Velez-Mitchell, media, government, and the private sector are also culturally hooked on these destructive customs and therefore justify, romanticize, and promote them - in essence, becoming "pushers."

 

In Addict Nation, Jane Velez-Mitchell calls attention to the collective denial by Americans about their addictions and overconsumption and confronts them to look at their bad behavior for what it really is: compulsive and self-destructive.

 

In other words, Addict Nation is an intervention. It will shock addicts out of denial and inspire them to get help and get well.

 

340 pages. Hardcover. 2011.

 

Check out this book by the same author: I Want: My Journey From Addiction and Overconsumption to a Simpler, Honest Life.

 

Click on the link to see the author discussing Addict Nation on CNN: http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/01/31/velez.mitchell.excerpt/index.html?hpt=C2

 

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