Failing to Create New Habits Doesn’t Mean You Lack Willpower
What we learned from heroin-addicted Vietnam War veterans and then promptly forgot.
5 min readApr 8, 2021
On May 16, 1971, a headline on the front page of the New York Times read, “G.I. Heroin Addiction Epidemic in Vietnam.” This wasn’t an exaggeration. According to a report from the Department of Defense, 51% of soldiers had…
