This story is by Johann Hari who has an interesting TED talk about addiction [0]. He put addiction down to the amount of connections that people have and seems

This story is by Johann Hari who has an interesting TED talk about addiction [0]. He put addiction down to the amount of connections that people have and seems to be arguing something similar in this article too. Googling bought up this criticism of the video [1] for some perspective (with Hari, to his credit, answering the criticisms). [0]: https://www.ted.com/talks/johann_hari_everything_you_think_you_know_about_addiction_is_wrong https://www.ted.com/talks/johann_hari_everything_you_think_y... [1]: https://www.thefix.com/content/4-things-hari-gets-wrong-about-addiction https://www.thefix.com/content/4-things-hari-gets-wrong-abou...