Never Enough

The core of this book makes for a genuinely revelatory and clear way of thinking about addiction (and how to avoid it). I am not sure about some of the research the author quotes though - a lot of it sounds quite dated (at one point she literally quotes a paper from the Soviet Union) and the fact that the vast majority of drug users don't end up addicted is not directly addressed - probably because it complicates the book's thesis about the inevitability of addiction given conditions a b and c, which are then explained to be rare and unpredictable and complicated, and yet somehow inevitable. It's a mess. The author's total abstinence following years of addiction biases this book quite strongly and the author is very, very open about that bias, which makes this book less scientific than it purports to be.