Addict Nation (47 page)

10 “Lockheed Martin spent $3.46 million lobbying in 1Q,” Associated Press, June 23, 2010,
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Lockheed-Martin-spent-346-apf-4181942098.html?x=0&.v=2
.

11 Alan Simpson, “Political Intelligence,”
ComLinks Intel
magazine, October 15, 2004,
http://www.comlinks.com/polintel/pi041015.htm
.

12 Dwight D. Eisenhower, “Military-Industrial Complex Speech,” Public Papers of the Presidents, 1961,
http://www.h-net.org/~hst306/documents/indust.html
.

13 Elisabeth Bumiller, “The War: A Trillion Can Be Cheap,”
New York Times
, July 24, 2010,
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/weekinreview/25bumiller.html
.

14 “2010 Global Peace Index,” Institute for Economics and Peace,
http://www.visionofhumanity.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/2010-GPI-Results-and-Methodology-Report1.pdf/PDF/2010/2010%20GPI%20Results%20Report.pdf
.

15 “Obama: Nobel Peace Prize is ‘call to action,’” CNN Europe, October 9, 2009,
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/10/09/nobel.peace.prize/index.html
; and Peter Spiegel, Jonathan Weisman, and Yochi J. Dreazen, “Obama Bets Big on Troop Surge,”
Wall
Street Journal
, December 2, 2009,
http://online.wsj.com/article/NA_WSJ_PUB:SB125967363641871171.html
.

16 Russel Goldman and Luis Martinez, “WikiLeaks: At Least 109,000 Killed During Iraq War,” ABC News, October 22, 2010,
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wikleaks-dumps-thousands-classified-military-documents/story?id=11949670
.

17 Elisabeth Bumiller, “We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint,”
New York Times
, April 26, 2010,
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/27/world/27powerpoint.html?src=tp &pagewanted=print
.

18 Ibid.

19 Gordon Lubold and Carol E. Lee, “President Obama: Stanley McChrystal showed ‘poor judgment,’” Politico.com, June 22, 2010,
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0610/ 38837.html

20 Eugene Jarecki,
The American Way of War: Guided Missiles, Misguided Men, and a Republic
in Peril
(Free Press, 2008), 94 and 95.

21 Scott Shane and James Dao, “Investigators Study Tangle of Clues on Fort Hood Suspect,”
New York Times
, November 14, 2009,
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/15/us/15hasan.html
; and “Gunman Kills 12, Wounds 31 at Fort Hood,” NBC News and MSNBC.com, November 5, 2009,
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33678801
.

22 Scott Shane and James Dao, “Investigators Study Tangle of Clues on Fort Hood Suspect,”
New York Times
, November 14, 2009,
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/15/us/15hasan.htm
.

23 “Briton guilty of plotting ‘deadly terror attack,’” BBC News, December 10, 2009,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8404551.stm
.

24 Steve Swann, “How British Muslim Adam Khatib Became a Bomb Plotter,” BBC News, December 9, 2009,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8381192.stm
.

25 Sabrina Tavernes and Andrew W, Lehren, “A Grim Portrait of Civilian Deaths in Iraq,”
The New York Times,
October 22, 2010,
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/23/world/middleeast/23casualties.html?ref=todayspaper
.

26 “U.N.: More than 4 million Iraqis displaced,”
Associated Press,
June 5, 2007,
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19055852
.

27 Robert F. Worth, “Is Yemen the Next Afghanistan?”
New York Times
, July 6, 2010,
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/11/magazine/11Yemen-t.html
.

28 Scott Shane, “Wars Fought and Wars Googled,”
New York Times
, June 26, 2010,
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/27/weekinreview/27shane.html
.

29 “Faisal Shahzad,” Wikipedia,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faisal_Shahzad
.

30 Dana Priest, “Soldier Suicides at Record Level,”
Washington Post
, January 31, 2008,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/30/AR2008013003106.html
.

31 Ibid.

32 “1 in 8 returning soldiers suffers from PTSD,” Associated Press, June 30, 2004,
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5334479
.

33 Ronald Glasser, “A Shock Wave of Brain Injuries,”
Washington Post
, April 8, 2007,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/content/article/2007/04/06/AR2007040601821.html
.

34 Dexter Filkins, “Despite Doubt, Karzai Brother Retains Power,”
New York Times
, March 30, 2010,
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/31/world/asia/31karzai.html
.

35 Dexter Filkins, “With Troop Pledge, New Demands on Afghans,”
New York Times
, December 1, 2009,
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/02/world/asia/02afghan.html
.

36 Anne Gearan, “Mullen says US has Iran strike plan, just in case,” Associated Press, August 1, 2010,
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/aug/1/mullen-us-has-iran-strike-plan-just-case/

37 Ibid.

38 Greg Mortenson,
Three Cups of Tea
(New York: Penguin Books, 2007), 268.

39 Nicholas D. Kristof, “One Soldier or 20 Schools,” Op-Ed,
New York Times
, July 28, 2010,
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/29/opinion/29kristof.html
.

40 Dwight D. Eisenhower quote, Brainyquote,
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/d/dwightdei136898.html
.

41 “2010 Global Peace Index,” Institute for Economics and Peace,”
http://www.visionof humanity.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/2010-GPI-Results-and-Methodology-Report1.pdf
.

42 Charles (Chic) Dambach,
Exhaust the Limits: The Life and Times of a Global Peacebuilder
(Apprentice House, 2010), 274.

Chapter 12: The Sobers

1 Jeanna Bryner, “U.S. Is Richest Nation, But Not Happiest,”
LiveScience.com
,
http://www.livescience.com/culture/happiest-nations-income-100701.html
.

2 David Michael Bruno, “100 Thing Challenge,” GuyNamedDave.com,
http://www.guynameddave.com/100-thing-challenge.html
.

3 Eckhart Tolle,
A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose
(New York: Penguin, 2008), 46.

INTERVIEWS

Albracht, Matthew (Managing Director, The Peace Alliance), interviewed by the authors, August 2010.

Barnard, Neal, M.D. (Clinical Researcher and Author of
Breaking the Food Seduction
), interviewed by authors, May 2010.

Bragman, Howard (Chairman of Fifteen Minutes Public Relations and Author of “Where’s my Fifteen Minutes?”), interviewed by the authors, July 2010.

Brown, Leslie, M.D. (Pediatrician and Vegan), interviewed by authors, May 2010.

Cahill, Danny (
Biggest Loser
Star), interviewed by authors, May 2010.

Dambach, Charles F. “Chic” (President and CEO Alliance for Peacebuilding), interviewed by the authors, August 2010.

Guss, Gregory (Licensed Clinical Social Worker), interviewed by the authors, March and June 2010.

Halton, Gene, Ph.D., (Professor of Sociology, University of Notre Dame and Author of “The Great Brain Suck”), interviewed by the authors, May 2010.

Heineke, Becky (Blogger at
Overpopulationblog.blogspot.com
), interviewed by the authors, June 2010.

Hilton, Perez (Celebrity Blogger,
www.perezhilton.com
), interviewed by the authors, July 2010.

Jenike, Michael, M.D. (Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School and Director of the OCD Institute), interviewed by authors, July 2010.

Kasser, Tim (Professor and Chair of Psychology at Knox College and Author of “
The High
Price of Materialism
), interviewed by authors, May 2010.

Katherine, Anne (Author of
How to Make Almost Any Diet Work
and
Lick It! Fix Her
Appetite Switch
), interviewed by authors, May 2010.

Kucinich, Dennis (Congressman, D-OH), interviewed by the authors, August 2010.

Kuriansky, Judy, Ph.D.(Professional Therapist, Radio Host, and Author of
The Complete
Idiots Guide to a Healthy Relationship
), interviewed by the authors, June 2010.

Linn, Susan (Director of Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood
Commercialfreechildhood.org
and Author of “The Case For Make-Believe: Saving Play in a Commercialized World” and “Consuming Kids: Protecting our Children from the Onslaught of Marketing and Advertising”), interviewed by the authors, May 2010.

Mathis, Judge Greg (District Court judge and syndicated television show judge), interviewed by the authors, March 2010.

Pratt, Travis (Author of
Addicted to Incarceration—Corrections Policy and the Politics of Misinformation
in the United States
and Associate Professor, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice Arizona State University), interviewed by the authors, March 2010.

Roskos, Laura, Ph.D., (Co-President of U. S. Section Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom), interviewed by the authors, August 2010.

Samuels, Howard, Psy D. (Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Psychotherapist, Founder and CEO of The Hills Treatment Center in LA), interviewed by the authors, March 2010.

Samuels, Howard, Psy D. (Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Psychotherapist, and Founder and CEO of The Hills Treatment Center in Los Angeles), interviewed by the authors, March 2010.

Seeley, Ken (Addiction Expert and Founder of Intervention 911), interviewed by the authors, March 2010.

Selman, Donna (Author of
Punishment for Sale
and Associate Professor of Criminology, at Eastern Michigan University), interviewed by the authors, March 2010.

Soffer, Simeon (Director of
Fight to The Max
), interviewed by the authors, March 2010.

Switalski, Erin (Executive Director, Women’s Voices for the Earth), interviewed by authors, July 2010.

Triessl, Alison (Attorney and Co-Founder/CEO of Pasadena Recovery Center), interviewed by the authors, April 2010.

Andrea (Anonymous Cleaning Addict/Clean Freak), interviewed by authors, July 2010.

April East (Anonymous Gaming Addict), interviewed by authors, July 2010.

Interviews recorded by phone with permission.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Jane Velez-Mitchell
is an award-winning television journalist and host of the hit TV show
Issues with Jane Velez-Mitchell
on HLN. She is the author of the
New York Times
bestselling memoir
iWant,
which outlines her journey from alcoholism and overconsumption to a simpler, honest life. With more than a decade and a half of sobriety, Velez-Mitchell has become a nationally recognized voice on addiction, often commenting on the subject for CNN, Tru TV, and other cable networks. With more than three decades of journalistic experience, Velez-Mitchell is an astute observer of national trends.

Sandra Mohr
is an award-winning filmmaker who wrote, directed, and produced
Stock Shock,
a powerful documentary about stock market manipulation. Coauthor of
Addict Nation,
Mohr also assisted Velez-Mitchell with her books
Secrets Can Be Murder
and
iWant
. Her company, Mohr Productions, Inc., creates programming/commercials for TV and the Internet.