Corrections V – posted February 8th 2015
On page 183, I state that menthol cigarettes are less addictive than tobacco cigarettes. Ben Richards got in touch to let me know this is based on outdated science, and this claim is now strongly...
View ArticleCorrections VI – posted 8th Feb 2015
There is a typo on page 268. It says: “When you ban a drug, it’s very risk to transport it – so dealers will always choose the drug that packs the strongest possible kick into the smallest possible...
View ArticleCorrections VII – posted February 17th 2015
Clare Barlett and Charles Cairns both emailed to point out a typo on page 231 – where it refers to the “patents” of Dr Hal Vorse, it should say “patients.” Thanks to both of you for spotting this.…...
View ArticleCorrections VIII – posted February 27th
Alison Wrbik emailed to point out two typos: On page 276, I wrote: “The cops demanded to know: Where do you buy your marijuana? What suppliers to you know?” The ‘to’ in the last sentence should of...
View ArticleCorrections IX – posted 7th March 2015
On p51, I refer to the World Series baseball game rigged by Arnold Rothstein in 1919, and say “50 million people were listening in.” In fact, the first live radio broadcast of the World Series was in...
View ArticleCorrections X – posted March 12th 2015
Nancy Carroll emailed to point out a typo. On page 211, I mistyped Ed Bradley’s name as “Ed Brantley”. Thanks to Nancy for pointing this out – it will be corrected in future editions.… Read more
View ArticleCorrections XI – posted March 19th 2015
The excellent translator who is preparing the Spanish version of the book, María José Viejo, noticed some typos and minor errors that I’m keen to correct for the record and in future editions. The...
View ArticleCorrections XII
Brent Stone emailed to point out a typo. On page 77 in some editions of the book it says: “A few years after the incident Chino I was describing, an in-depth investigation by the federal government…”...
View ArticleCorrections XIII – posted 11th April 2015
A few more corrections have been brought to my attention. Jonas van Hoffmann emailed to point out two mistakes. On page 259, it says President Mujica of Uruguay was elected in 2005. This is a typo: he...
View ArticleCorrections XIV – posted September 8th 2015
A few more corrections have come through from readers: On page 121, explaining the origins of the Mexican drug cartel the Zetas, I wrote: “It would be as if the Navy Seals defected from the U.S. Army...
View ArticleCorrections – XV, posted April 14th 2016
I was asked by a few people on the book’s Facebook page to respond to an article on the excellent addiction and recovery website ‘The Fix’ that was entitled ‘Four Things Hari Gets Wrong,’ by an...
View ArticleCorrections XVI – posted June 6th 2016
On page 183 of Chasing The Scream, I write: “It would be absurd to say the chemicals play no role at all in, say, cigarette or crack addiction. So how much really is due to the chemicals, and how much...
View ArticleCorrections XVII – posted June 17th 2016
Captain Paul Vandenbos has emailed to point out an error on page 86. I refer to somebody being a ‘Lieutenant Colonel’ in the US Navy, which is in fact a rank in the US Army; the correct description of...
View ArticleCorrections XIX – posted June 19th 2017
On page 19 of Chasing The Scream, I write, about Billie Holiday: “Billie brought herself up on the streets of Baltimore, alone, defiant. It was the last city without a sewer system in the United...
View ArticleCorrections XX – posted 20th February 2019
I was emailed with a series of thoughtful and intelligent questions by Stephen who runs the YouTube channel Coffee Break, and in a series of email exchanges with him, a few areas came up that I thought...
View ArticleCORRECTIONS XXI – Published December 16th 2020
I have three corrections to make. The first two were pointed out to me by Peter Cracknell, to whom I am grateful. In the afterword to the book, added in 2019, one passage says: “As I spoke to...
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