Chasing The Scream Chapter Summary

Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs is an interesting novel where Johann Hari, the author tells his story of being drawn to addicts and recovering addicts. His feeling of being drawn to these addicts made it possible for him to travel all over the world. I am going to break this novel into three different themes that I saw Hari make. The first theme that I thought was interesting and not surprising is that race plays a huge part in who is to be arrested and or convicted of a crimes because of their race. Secondly, I wanted to focus on one of the program that John Marks set up for heroin addicts where he discovers a breakthrough. Lastly, I am going to show you how Hari describes the way their is a drug war all over …show more content…
The stories in the novel were extremely interesting and I feel were needed for us readers to understand the drug of war. But I think that Hari believing that it takes people to love a group of addicts is the way to change their addiction. That would be amazing if that was true, but I have seen addicts that are my family who I love dearly and they still would not stop. It takes a lot more than love for someone to stop their addiction. I believe that programs, self-motivation, and love could possibly start to end the drug war, but it all starts with the addict wanting to change themselves. Another thing that I found interesting was that Hari was accused of plagiarism. This makes me believe that a lot of the things that Hari said could be untrue. Although I thought that this book was well thought out, it only makes me think that these stories could be made up and that they were not useful information for the overcoming of the drug war. Before finding that out, I thought that Hari made a lot of valid points in his findings of the drug war and I hope one day that we will be able to overcome