Drugs, Addiction, and Social Conditions

Rev Left Radio · Jan 20, 2019 · 1h 28m

Mel joins Breht in-studio to discuss drugs, addiction, trauma, and mental illness and their connections to the social conditions which capitalism manifests and imposes upon us.

Topics discussed include childhood trauma, pharmaceutical companies profiting off of addiction epidemics, the family unit under capitalism, the limitations and failures of AA, Left organizing around the issues of addiction, the necessary politicization of mental illness, alienation, the complicated emotional landscape of addiction in the family, the power of community, evolving as social/communal animals, and much…