Villella asks,
Why has The War on Drugs expanded exponentially for five decades?
Why does it continue to fail?
What can you do to end it?
He hopes to reach a global audience from Baby Boomers to Gen Z, who recognize they have the power within them to use their voices to rid the world of yet another political catastrophe. Drug abuse harms all of us. How we work to eliminate it will require the courage to leave the past behind and the creativity to forge new, measurable, dynamic solutions that will make transformation possible.
The book follows these themes:
- How well-meaning people are blinded by long-held irrational beliefs and confirmation biases
- Why it is important to raise questions about the motives, measures, and methods of government decision-makers. Explains why new very expensive drugs offered as solutions are inadequate to address a more profound, complex, and encompassing problem.
Expect two learning outcomes:
1. Ideas about how to do much more to hold our government and large, influential corporations accountable.
2. Advice on how to differentiate between what is fake and what is factual and recognize how modern communications technologies, perhaps unwittingly, exploit our cognitive vulnerabilities.
