Hooked Nation: Japan's Addiction Economy

You've told yourself "I want to stop" a hundred times. So why can't you?Hooked Nation pulls back the curtain on what's actually happening inside your brain when addiction takes hold - and on the industries that have spent decades learning how to exploit it. Written by two people in recovery, not academics observing from a distance, this book walks through the real neuroscience of addiction (dopamine, the reward circuit, why "willpower" was never the issue) and then turns the lens outward: onto the alcohol, gambling, and tech industries that profit from designing products your brain can't easily say no to - and onto a society that quietly benefits from looking away.
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