Episode Details
EPISODE INFO
- Released
- February 21, 2019
- Duration
- 2h 59m
- Channel
- The Joe Rogan Experience
- Watch on YouTube
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION
Johann Hari is a writer and journalist. His new book “Lost Connections” is available now.
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EPISODE SUMMARY
In this episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, featuring Joe Rogan and Johann Hari, Joe Rogan Experience #1250 - Johann Hari explores johann Hari on Addiction, Depression, and Why Punishment Fails Us Johann Hari joins Joe Rogan to argue that our dominant stories about drugs, addiction, and depression are fundamentally wrong and dangerously incomplete. Drawing on his books *Chasing the Scream* and *Lost Connections*, he explains that addiction is less about chemical hooks and more about pain, disconnection, and environments that make life unbearable. Hari contrasts punitive U.S. drug policies with compassionate, evidence-based approaches in Portugal and Switzerland that decriminalize or legally regulate drugs while rebuilding people’s lives. He broadens the lens to show how loneliness, junk values, and loss of control at work fuel widespread despair, suggesting that the opposite of addiction and depression is not just sobriety or medication, but meaningful human connection and social change.
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