"A fascinating history of corporate America's efforts to shape our habits and desires." -Sean Illing, Vox "[A] compulsively readable book about bad habits becoming big business...In crisp and playful prose and with plenty of needed...

In a newly enlarged edition of this book, David Courtwright offers an original interpretation of the dramatic change in the pattern of opiate addiction--from respectable upper-class matrons to lower-class urban males, often with a...

We live in an age of addiction, from compulsive gaming and shopping to binge eating and opioid abuse. What can we do to resist temptations that insidiously and deliberately rewire our brains? Nothing, David Courtwright says, unless we...