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Are You Unhappy? Is It Because of Consumer Addiction?

By Charles Shaw, AlterNet. Posted April 11, 2008.


The pattern of out-of-control consumption in the U.S. is not too different from the well-known behavioral patterns of substance abusers.
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Charles Shaw, a Chicago-based writer, is a regular contributor to AlterNet. He is the former editorial director of the Conscious Choice publications and a contributor to Reality Sandwich. He is currently writing Exile Nation, a drug war memoir.

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