Chasing The Scream by Johann Hari argues that addiction is not only due to chemicals. Johann tells about an experiment done by professor Bruce. Bruce’s lab rats experiments tells us that rats with good social and fun lives would never choose to take heroin and the rats that had bad lives would always take the drug. But not only that once the rats with bad lives were changed to a better environment where their lives were good they immediately stopped taking the drug. Johann tells us about bruce’s finding because it explains that that addiction is not only based on chemicals but also a major part in the environment that the person is in. This is not the only observations that points this to be true.

Another observation made by Bruce that argues addiction is not the only reason for addiction but environment is a major reason. Bruce tells us of what happened during and after the Vietnam war. During the war an extremely large amount of U.S soldiers were using heroin to cope with their horrible lives they had during the war. After the war something happened that a lot of people did not see it coming, 95% of soldiers that were using heroin simply stopped because their lives were now good and calm compared to when they were in war. Bruce informed us of this event because it was basically his rat experiment but in human scale and the results found in this event goes hand to hand with the findings of bruce’s rat experiment.

P.S: I didn’t notice that my Post didn’t wasn’t publish on the due date and I had not notice until I notice today in class when I went to the site. Hopefully you still give me some credit