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by jdietrich 2936 days ago
I am obliged to point out that Johann Hari has a distinctly chequered reputation. He lost his job as a columnist at The Independent in 2011 due to multiple substantiated allegations of plagiarism; it later transpired that he had vandalised the Wikipedia articles of journalists who had criticised his conduct.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Hari#2011_scandals

His book Lost Connections has been strongly criticised for misrepresenting the mainstream scientific position, cherry-picking data and making unreferenced and unsupported claims.

https://anotherangrywoman.com/2018/01/22/thinking-critically...

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Thanks for your post, I was not aware of the controversy around Hari.

That said, I found his book "Chasing the Scream: the first and last days of the war on drugs" [1] an informative resource that in some places touches on this thread's topic.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chasing_the_Scream