The Book Club: A Philosophy of Addiction

My&nbsp;guest in this week's Book Club podcast is the philosophy professor Hanna Pickard, whose new book is&nbsp;<em>What Would You Do Alone In A Cage With Nothing But&nbsp;Cocaine? A Philosophy of Addiction</em>. She tells me why we need a new approach to ‘the puzzle of addiction’. She says&nbsp;the idea that addicts are helplessly in thrall to the compulsions of a ‘broken brain’ is wrong, that we need to understand how sometimes using even if it's looks like killing you can make a sort of sense – and describes how her own one-off experience of morphine set her on the path of trying to change the way we think about drugs. <hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>