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The Chemical Carousel: What Science Tells Us About Beating Addiction
Date:
Tuesday, December 15, 2009 
In The Chemical Carousel, science writer Dirk Hanson takes readers through the neuroscience of addiction—to alcohol, drugs, tobacco, and even food. He sheds light on how neurochemicals present in everyone’s brains interact with biochemical individuality to facilitate addiction in certain people. Ultimately, he concludes that addiction is a disease that should treated rather than criminalized. Written in a lay-friendly, easy-to-read style , The Chemical Carousel a worthwhile book for anyone interested in why it’s so hard for addicts to avoid destructive behaviors.
