What the opioid epidemic teaches us about the addiction at the root of our social lifeand how we free ourselves from it.How To Break An Addiction paints an original and dynamic portrait of the nature of the opioid crisis while offering original commentary on what the crisis portends about the present historical conjuncture. Interrogating long and shortrun macro and micro national and global structural and personal factors it takes the ongoing US opioid crisis as a jumping off point to illustrate the profound conclusion capitalism at its core is an addiction.In a blend of memoir historical record original research and theoretical and cultural analysis critical geographer and harm reduction activist Annie Spencer argues against a dominant ampamp8216progressive presumption of the need to reform or ampamp8216saveampamp8217 capitalism demonstrating instead the imperative to think organize and enact new ways of being and provisioning together on a living Earth.How To Break An Addiction renders visible the extent to which the world we inhabit today is made by addictionampamp8212in capitalampamp8217s imageampamp8212and against life and wellbeing. Spencer calls for redress of the deepening crisis of addiction and the socalled ampamp8216epidemicampamp8217 of pain at its root for a paradigm shift away from the dominant economic logic in favor of new kinds of ecosystemic social practice and provision.