The Age of Addiction Quotes

“Limbic capitalism refers to a technologically advanced but socially regressive business system in which global industries, often with the help of complicit governments and criminal organizations, encourage excessive consumption and addiction.”
― David T. Courtwright, The Age of Addiction: How Bad Habits Became Big Business

“The nature of addiction has implications - more precisely, temptations -for businesses that sell habituating products. One is to encourage early and frequent consumption. Treat the lads, the salon keepers used to say, and you'll have their money in the till when they're adults. And the more they drink, the greater the profits.”
― David T. Courtwright, The Age of Addiction: How Bad Habits Became Big Business