Johann Hari: Everything you think you know about addiction is wrong
Johann Hari: Sve što mislite da znate o ovisnostima je pogrešno
Johann Hari spent three years researching the war on drugs; along the way, he discovered that addiction is not what we think it is. Full bio
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one of my relatives and not being able to.
jednog od mojih rođaka.
pa nisam shvaćao zašto,
so I didn't really understand why,
drug addiction in my family,
partly because it's now exactly 100 years
dijelom zato što su prije točno sto godina
in the United States and Britain,
zabranjene u SAD-u i Britaniji,
on the rest of the world.
nametnuli ostatku svijeta.
this really fateful decision
donijeli tu vjernu odluku
and make them suffer,
it would give them an incentive to stop.
da će ih potaknuti da prestanu.
some of the addicts in my life who I love,
neke od ovisnika u mom životu koje volim
if there was some way to help them.
na koji bih im mogao pomoći.
of incredibly basic questions
that doesn't seem to be working,
koji očito ne funkcionira
that we could try instead?
koji bismo mogli isprobati?
the answers I was looking for,
s različitim ljudima diljem svijeta
with different people around the world
if I could learn from them.
što mogu naučiti od njih.
going over 30,000 miles at the start,
preko 50 000 km odmah u početku,
loads of different people,
i upoznao puno različitih ljudi -
in Brownsville, Brooklyn,
u Bronsvilleu, Brooklynu
feeding hallucinogens to mongooses
halucinogene droge mungosima
ali samo u posebnim situacijama -
in very specific circumstances --
decriminalized all drugs,
ikada legalizirala sve droge,
that really blew my mind is,
we know about addiction is wrong,
da znamo o ovisnostima pogrešno.
the new evidence about addiction,
nove dokaze o ovisnosti,
a lot more than our drug policies.
samo naše zakone o drogama.
we know, what I thought I knew.
od toga što sam ja mislio da znam.
off and used heroin three times a day.
uzimali heroin triput dnevno.
primamljivije nego drugima.
enthusiastic than others at this prospect.
it's just a thought experiment.
koja nam se priča već stoljećima.
happen that we've been told for a century.
heroin izaziva ovisnost,
chemical hooks in heroin,
dependent on those hooks,
you'd all be heroin addicts. Right?
ovisnici o heroinu. Zar ne?
da je nešto u toj priči pogrešno
that something's not right with this story
and I get hit by a car and I break my hip,
pokupi me auto i slomim kuk,
dati velike količine diamorphinea.
and I'll be given loads of diamorphine.
than you're going to buy on the streets,
kojeg možete naći na ulicama
from a drug dealer is contaminated.
od dilera kontaminiran.
dobiti medicinski čist heroin,
from the doctor is medically pure.
a long period of time.
a koji su uzimali dosta heroina.
you've taken quite a lot of heroin.
anywhere in the world, this is happening.
about addiction is right --
vjerujemo o ovisnostima,
to all those chemical hooks --
uzročnicima ovisnosti.
Trebali bi postati ovisnici.
They should become addicts.
da ukoliko vam je baka operirala kuk,
if your grandmother had a hip replacement,
(Smijeh)
(Laughter)
činilo mi se veoma čudno,
it seemed so weird to me,
everything I thought I knew,
rečeno, svemu što sam mislio da znam
until I met a man called Bruce Alexander.
sve dok nisam upoznao Brucea Alexandera.
of psychology in Vancouver
to understand this issue.
razumjeti ovaj problem.
got in our heads, that story,
na koje smo svi pali, a ta priča
in the 20th century.
if you feel a little sadistic.
ako ste sadistički nastrojeni.
and you give it two water bottles:
u kavez i date mu dvije boce vode.
laced with either heroin or cocaine.
voda začinjena ili heroinom ili kokainom.
radije uzeti kontaminiranu
prefer the drug water
kill itself quite quickly.
Mislimo da to tako funkcionira.
That's how we think it works.
proučio je ovaj eksperiment
along and he looks at this experiment
stavili u prazan kavez
the rat in an empty cage.
osim drogirati se.
except use these drugs.
pod nazivom "Park za štakore"
that he called "Rat Park,"
they've got loads of colored balls,
dostupnih za razmnožavanje.
They can have loads of sex.
običnu i kontaminiranu.
the normal water and the drugged water.
like the drug water.
ne biraju kontaminiranu vodu.
when they're isolated
have happy and connected lives.
kad žive sretno i ispunjeno.
Professor Alexander thought,
ovo prvi put vidio, pomislio je
they're quite different to us.
samo uz štakore koji se razlikuju od nas.
koliko bismo htjeli, ali...
but, you know --
a human experiment
at the exact same time.
odvijao se u to isto vrijeme,
troops were using loads of heroin,
koristilo je ogromne količine heroina,
reports from the time,
they thought, my God, we're going to have
jer su mislili da će imati
on the streets of the United States
Imalo je smisla.
loads of heroin were followed home.
količine heroina poslani su kućama.
obavio je temeljito istraživanje.
did a really detailed study,
They didn't go into withdrawal.
proživljavali simptome odvikavanja.
jednostavno je prestalo.
about chemical hooks,
o kemijskoj ovisnosti,
but Professor Alexander began to think
ali profesor Alexander počeo je misliti
story about addiction.
about your chemical hooks?
nikakve veze s kemijskom ovisnosti?
to your environment?
oblik prilagođavanja okolišu?"
Petar Cohen iz Nizozemske
called Peter Cohen in the Netherlands
ne bi trebalo zvati ovisnošću,
even call it addiction.
and innate need to bond,
urođenu potrebu za vezivanjem.
we'll bond and connect with each other,
i povezivati jedni s drugima,
or beaten down by life,
izolirani ili nas je život pregazio,
that will give you some sense of relief.
što će nam pružiti olakšanje.
that might be pornography,
that might be cannabis,
s nečime jer nam je to u prirodi.
with something because that's our nature.
a difficult thing to get my head around,
to think about it is,
a bottle of water, right?
mjesta stoji boca vode,
of you have bottles of water with you.
da ih imaju i mnogi od vas.
of water could be bottles of vodka, right?
te boce vode zapravo punjene votkom.
I might after this -- (Laughter) --
pa i ja odmah nakon ovoga. (Smijeh)
odoka milijardu funti
the approximately gazillion pounds
pretpostavljam da si možete priuštiti
I'm guessing you guys could afford
for the next six months.
and the reason you're not going to do that
a to nećete napraviti
bonds and connections
imate ljude koje volite.
You've got people you love.
the evidence suggests,
a kako i dokazi potvrđuju,
to be present in your life.
significant implications.
are for the War on Drugs.
odnose se na rat drogama.
with a group of women
saying, "I was a drug addict,"
"Bila sam ovisna o drogama",
while members of the public jeer at them,
dok su im se promatrači rugali,
they're going to have criminal records
imat će kriminalne dosjee
in the legal economy again.
na legalnom tržištu.
u slučaju odreda okovanih,
obviously, in the case of the chain gang,
everywhere in the world
i dajemo im kriminalne dosjee.
We give them criminal records.
Dr. Gabor Maté, an amazing man,
odličan čovjek,
a system that would make addiction worse,
koji će pogoršati ovisnost,
to do the exact opposite,
postupiti upravo suprotno.
one of the worst drug problems in Europe.
najvišu stopu problema s drogom u Europi.
to heroin, which is kind of mind-blowing,
o heroinu, što je zaista nevjerojatno,
the American way more and more.
isprobavali "američki način".
and shamed them more,
stigmatizirali ih i posramljivali
the leader of the opposition got together,
i voditelj opozicije ujedinili
sve više ovisnika o heorinu.
ever more people becoming heroin addicts.
of scientists and doctors
riješiti taj problem."
genuinely solve the problem.
dr. Joãoa Goulãoa, krasnog čovjeka,
an amazing man called Dr. João Goulão,
od marihuane do cracka, ali" -
from cannabis to crack, but" --
on cutting addicts off,
na uskraćivanje stvari ovisnicima,
on reconnecting them with society."
da ih povežete s društvom."
as drug treatment
kad govorimo o liječenju ovisnosti
that does have some value.
to ima određenu vrijednost.
was the complete opposite of what we do:
čista suprotnost našim postpucima:
of job creation for addicts,
kreiranja poslova za ovisnike
to set up small businesses.
da osnuju mala poduzeća.
to a garage, and they'll say,
otići će u garažu i reći:
we'll pay half his wages.
mi ćemo mu pokriti pola plaće.
that every addict in Portugal
da svaki ovisnik u Portugalu
of bed for in the morning.
upoznati ovisnike u Portugalu,
in Portugal,
as they rediscovered purpose,
and relationships with the wider society.
i odnose sa širim društvom.
since that experiment began,
od početka eksperimenta
Journal of Criminology,
HIV is massively down among addicts.
kao i zaraženost HIV-om među ovisnicima.
is significantly down.
ovisnost je značajno opala.
so well is that almost nobody in Portugal
je taj što gotovo nitko u Portugalu
of implications
feel really increasingly vulnerable
su ljudi sve više ranjivi
whether it's to their smartphones
bilo o ovisnosti o mobitelima
i svi vi to znate -
you guys know this --
to have our smartphones on,
imati uključene mobitele
da je dosta vas izgledalo
looked an awful lot like
da će im diler biti nedostupan
was going to be unavailable
a možda je i čudno za reći.
and it might sound weird to say,
odcjepljenost glavni uzrok ovisnosti
is a major driver of addiction
najpovezanije društvo u povijesti.
society that's ever been, surely.
da su sve povezanosti koje imamo,
that the connections we have
parodija ljudske povezanosti.
of parody of human connection.
primijetit ćete nešto.
you'll notice something.
na Twitteru doći i tješiti vas
who come to sit with you.
na Facebooku.
who help you turn it round.
s kojima imate duboke,
who you have deep and nuanced
relationships with,
Bill McKibben, the environmental writer,
od Billa McKibbena, pisca o okolišu,
the average American believes
prosječni Amerikanac vjeruje
steadily since the 1950s.
an individual has in their home
veze smo zamijenili stvarima,
we've traded stuff for connections,
loneliest societies there has ever been.
od najusamljenijih društava u povijesti.
the Rat Park experiment, says,
eksperimenta sa štakorima,
about individual recovery,
govorimo o osobnom oporavku,
about social recovery.
o društvenom oporavku.
not just with individuals but as a group,
i kao s pojedincima i kao s grupom
for a lot of us,
like that isolated cage
why I went into it.
the political stuff, the social stuff.
za političkim i društvenim otkrićima,
the people I love.
long journey and I'd learned all this,
sa svim tim znanjem,
it's hard loving an addict,
teško je voljeti ovisnika,
who know in this room.
why this debate is so charged
zašto je ova rasprava toliko nabijena
of each of us, right?
that looks at an addict and thinks,
koji promatra ovisnika i misli si:
ovisnicima u našim životima
to deal with the addicts in our lives
ako ste je ikad gledali.
if you guys have ever seen it.
definirani reality televizijom,
is defined by reality TV,
the show "Intervention,"
in their life, gather them together,
iz njegova života i sve ih okupite,
i kažu: "ako se ne središ,
and they say, if you don't shape up,
the connection to the addict,
they make it contingent
why that approach doesn't work,
takav pristup ne funkcionira,
the importing of the logic of the Drug War
primjeni rata drogama
how could I be Portuguese?
kako bih mogao biti Portugalac?
and I can't tell you I do it consistently
i što konstantno radim
u svom životu govorim
the connection with them,
whether you're using or you're not.
na to koriste li droge ili ne.
bez obzira na to u kakvom su stanju
I'll come and sit with you
doći ću i bit ću s njima
want you to be alone
of how we respond to addicts,
naše reakcije na ovisnike,
war songs about addicts.
singing love songs to them,
trebali pjevati o ljubavi
is not sobriety.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Johann Hari - JournalistJohann Hari spent three years researching the war on drugs; along the way, he discovered that addiction is not what we think it is.
Why you should listen
British journalist Johann Hari is the author of the New York Times best-selling book Chasing The Scream, from which his talk on addiction was adapted and for which he spent three years researching the war on drugs and questioning the ways in which we treat addiction.
He has written for many of the world’s leading newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, Le Monde, The Guardian, New Republic, The Nation, Slate.com, and The Sydney Morning Herald. He was a columnist for the British newspaper The Independent for nine years.
Hari was twice named National Newspaper Journalist of the Year by Amnesty International, was named Gay Journalist of the Year at the Stonewall Awards -- and won the Martha Gellhorn Prize for political writing.
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