Looking for nonfiction books about understanding addiction and

Not joking: Infinite Jest.

>>9896153
I Haven't read it yet but check out Confessions of an English Opium Eater. It's Public Domain too!

>>9896153
Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas by Natasha Dow Schull. The writing is academic and dry, but the research is fascinating.

Requiem for a Dream was better than expected.

>>9896153
I highly recommend Righteous Dopefiend by Bourgois and Schoenberg. It's an ethnographical study of a homeless population of drug addicts in San Fransico. The two authors (one is a photographer) were medical anthropology students at Berkeley. Their field notes are strangely poetic but not in the typical bullshit romanticizing fashion. As a medical professional, I suspect you'll enjoy their reflections.

drugs are degenerate. the only pill I take is the red pill

>>9898448
I bet your fun

>>9898466
You're

Peter Pan

it's about a little boy who never grew up