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    • Close Encounters with Addiction
    • By: Gabor Maté MD
    • Narrated by: Daniel Maté
    • Length: 16 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 07-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,385 ratings
    • In this timely and profoundly original book, best-selling writer and physician Gabor Maté looks at the epidemic of addictions in our society, tells us why we are so prone to them, and what is needed to liberate ourselves from their hold on our emotions and behaviours....

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    • Internet Pornography and the Emerging Science of Addiction
    • By: Gary Wilson
    • Narrated by: Noah Church
    • Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 01-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,904 ratings
    • When high speed Internet became widely available a few years ago, growing numbers of people began to worry that their porn use was running out of control....

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    • The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol
    • By: Holly Whitaker
    • Narrated by: Holly Whitaker
    • Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 12-31-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5,115 ratings
    • We live in a world obsessed with drinking. We drink at baby showers and work events, brunch and book club, graduations and funerals. Yet no one ever questions alcohol’s ubiquity—in fact, the only thing ever questioned is why someone doesn’t drink....

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    • Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
    • By: Dr. Anna Lembke
    • Narrated by: Dr. Anna Lembke
    • Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 08-24-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7,072 ratings
    • This book is about pleasure. It’s also about pain. Most important, it’s about how to find the delicate balance between the two, and why now more than ever finding balance is essential....

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    • The Revolutionary, Science-Based Alcoholism and Addiction Recovery Program
    • By: Harold C. Urschel III MD
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 136 ratings
    • Healing the Addicted Brain is a breakthrough work that focuses on treating drug and alcohol addiction as a biological disease....

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    • A Memoir of Abuse, Addiction, Sex Work, and Recovery
    • By: Amber van de Bunt
    • Narrated by: Amber van de Bunt
    • Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 413 ratings
    • From an early age, Amber van de Bunt knew she wasn't like the other girls in town. From childhood struggles with depression and eating disorders, her years as a topless dancer in Florida, and an eventual abortion and suicide attempt, to her rebirth in Los Angeles as a porn star....

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    • Why Addiction Is Not a Disease
    • By: Marc Lewis PhD
    • Narrated by: Don Hagen
    • Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 07-21-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 497 ratings
    • Cognitive neuroscientist and former addict Marc Lewis makes a convincing case that addiction is not a disease and shows why the disease model has become an obstacle to healing....

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    • What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
    • By: Michael Pollan
    • Narrated by: Michael Pollan
    • Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 21,423 ratings
    • An investigation by Michael Pollan into the medical and scientific revolution taking place around psychedelic drugs—and the spellbinding story of his own life-changing psychedelic experiences....

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    • The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge : A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution
    • By: Terence McKenna
    • Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 09-28-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,298 ratings
    • Terence McKenna hypothesizes that as the North African jungles receded, a branch of our arboreal primate ancestors left the forest canopy and began living in the open areas beyond....

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    • Resisting the Attention Economy
    • By: Jenny Odell
    • Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
    • Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 722 ratings
    • A galvanizing critique of the forces vying for our attention - and our personal information - that redefines what we think of as productivity, reconnects us with the environment, and reveals all that we've been too distracted to see about ourselves and our world....

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    • Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks
    • By: Ben Goldacre
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
    • Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 01-13-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 594 ratings
    • Author Ben Goldacre exposes the epidemic of pseudoscience and gives listeners the tools they need to distinguish good science from nonsense....

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    • The savage seduction of drugs and alcohol, and the art of walking away
    • By: Jenny Valentish
    • Narrated by: Imogen Wilde
    • Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Journalist Jenny Valentish investigates the female experience of drugs and alcohol, using her own story to light the way....

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    • By: Leon Neyfakh, Prologue Projects
    • Narrated by: Leon Neyfakh, Arielle Pardes
    • Series: Backfired
    • Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 06-20-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 367 ratings
    • Backfired is the latest podcast from Prologue Projects, the award-winning team behind Slow Burn, Fiasco, and Think Twice: Michael Jackson. Backfired is a show about the business of unintended consequences—what happens when solving one problem inadvertently leads to a host of new ones?

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    • By: Michael Pollan
    • Narrated by: Michael Pollan
    • Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 07-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,674 ratings
    • From number one New York Times best-selling author Michael Pollan, a radical challenge to how we think about drugs, and an exploration into the powerful human attraction to psychoactive plants - and the equally powerful taboos....

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    • Debunking the Bad Science Behind 12-Step Programs and the Rehab Industry
    • By: Lance Dodes MD, Zachary Dodes
    • Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
    • Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 01-29-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 89 ratings
    • In The Sober Truth, acclaimed addiction specialist Dr. Lance Dodes exposes the deeply flawed science that the 12-step industry has used to support its programs. Dr. Dodes analyzes dozens of studies to reveal a startling pattern of errors, misjudgments, and biases....

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    • By: James Frey
    • Narrated by: Andy Paris
    • Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 10-21-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 487 ratings
    • Perhaps the most unconventional and literally breathtaking father-son story you'll ever read, My Friend Leonard pulls you immediately....

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    • An Antidote to the Self-Help Addiction
    • By: Dr. David E. Martin
    • Narrated by: Dr. David E. Martin
    • Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 118 ratings
    • Lizards Eat Butterflies unveils David Martin’s deepest passion about how we’re living on this planet and how we could do so much more to improve our experience with a shift in perspective....

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    • Control Alcohol, Find Freedom, Discover Happiness, and Change Your Life
    • By: Annie Grace
    • Narrated by: Annie Grace
    • Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 01-02-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7,694 ratings
    • Annie Grace presents the psychological and neurological components of alcohol use based on the latest science and reveals the cultural, social, and industry factors that support alcohol dependence....

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