Living Wealthy Radio

Did you know... North American governments Spend over 51 BILLION dollars a year on the War on Drugs? Yet these same governments do very little to treat addiction and the "poverty of the spirit" that engenders this addiction. Dr. Bruce K. Alexander is a Canadian psychologist who believes  that society is drowning in addictions, to alchohol, drug use and a thousand other habits. He maintains the reason for this is a growing disconnect as people around are torn from the close ties to family, culture, and traditional spirituality.  Alexendar says this rift and lack of social integration has destroyed what used to constitute the normal fabric of societal life. For many, addiction serves as a substitute for the connectedness for which they long and which provides context and meaning for their lives. Alexander believes because societal determinants are so much more powerful that individual ones, that addiction is much more a social problem than an individual disorder.  This is why he feels that the Wa