Move Over, Disaster Capitalism--Make Room for Addiction Capitalism

That monkey on your back comes in many forms.

We've all heard of Disaster Capitalism: the Powers That Be either initiate or amplify a crisis as a means of granting themselves "emergency powers" which just so happen to further concentrate the nation's wealth and power in the hands of the few at the expense of the many.

Naomi Klein described the concept and cited examples in her 2008 book The Shock Do…