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the creation of the Special Action Office of Drug Abuse Pre vention: “Excerpts from
President’s Message on Drug Abuse C ontrol,” New York Times, June 18, 1971,
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nine out of ten soldiers who used heroin in Vietnam: Lee N. Robins, Darlene H. Davis,
and David N. Nurco, “How Permanent Was Vietnam Drug Addiction? ” American
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90 percent of heroin users become re-addicted: B obby P. Smyth et al., “L apse and Relapse
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“disciplined” people are better at structuring their lives: Wilhelm Hofmann et al.,
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eir Desires,” PsycEXTRA D ataset 102, no. 6 (2012), doi:10.1037/e634112013–146.
It’s easier to practice self-restraint when you don’t have to use it: “Our prototypical model
of self-control is angel on one side and devil on the other, and they battle it out. . . .
We tend to think of people with strong willpower as people who are able to ght this
battle effectively. Actually, the people who are really good at self-control never have
these battles in the rst place.” For more, see Brian Resnick, “ e Myth of Self-
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e cues were still internalized: “ e Biolog y of Motivation and Habits: Why We Drop the
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Showing pictures of blackened lungs to smokers: Kelly McGonigal, e Upside of Stress:
Why Stress Is G ood for You, and How to Get Good at It (New York: Aver y, 2016), xv.
showing addicts a picture of cocaine for just thirty-three milliseconds: Fran Smith, “How
Science Is Unlocking the Secrets of Addiction,” National G eographic, September
2017, https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/09/the-addicted-brain.

CHAPTER 8

Niko Tinbergen performed a series of experiments: Nikolaas Tinbergen, e Herring
Gull’s World (London: C ollins, 1953); “Nikolaas Tinbergen,” New World
Encyclopedia, http://www.newworldenc yclopedia.org/entr y/Nikolaas_Tinbergen,
last modi ed September 30, 2016.