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This Week on Dopey!\nBack for his second appearance on the show is journalist & multiple New York Times bestselling author Johann Hari, who, when confronted with his own deteriorating attention span, dove deep into the individual and systemic solutions to this dispiriting collective trend.\nJohann has written for the LA Times, Le Monde, and many other outlets, has two of the most-watched\xa0TED Talks, and has been profiled in essentially every prominent media outlet. His\xa0books include\xa0Chasing The Scream\xa0and\xa0Lost Connections,\xa0which explores the roots of addiction, and was the subject of our first exchange back on\xa0episode #416.\xa0But today, he\u2019s here to share big lessons from his latest book,\xa0Stolen Focus: Why You Can\u2019t Pay Attention,\xa0which is a provoking journey into the forces robbing us of our attention and a look at how we might begin to reclaim our minds, and our lives.\nPLUS Loz from the amazing addiction/recovery Instagram meme page Brutal Recovery talking about how she copes with being a super popular memer, her sobriety and how her signature move in a pub brawl was to throw chairs!\nPLUS Dopey a voicemail, email and much much more on this all new 399th addition of that good ol' Dopey show!\nMore about Dopey:\nDopey Podcast is the world\u2019s greatest podcast on drugs, addiction and dumb shit. Chris and I were two IV heroin addicts who loved to talk about all the coke we smoked, snorted and shot, all the pills we ate, smoked, all the weed we smoked and ate, all the booze we consumed and all the consequences we suffered. After making the show for 2 and a half years Chris tragically relapsed and died from a fentanyl overdose. Dopey continued on, at first to mourn the horrible loss of Chris, but then to continue our mission - which was at its core, to keep addicts and alcoholics company. Whether to laugh at our time in rehab, or cry at the worst missteps we made, Dopey tells the truth about drugs, addiction and recovery. We continually mine the universe for stories rife with debauchery and highlight serious drug taking and alcoholism. We also examine different paths toward addiction recovery. We shine a light on harm reduction and medication assisted treatment. We talk with celebrities and nobodies and stockpile stories to be the greatest one stop shop podcast on all things drugs, addiction, recovery and comedy!