This is a nice video on addiction: https://video-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hvideo-xtp1/v/t42.1790-2/11290294_10153015585575983_595379980_n.mp4?efg=eyJybHIiOjMwMCwicmxhIjo1MTIsInZlbmNvZGVfdGFnIjoicWZfNDI2d19jcmZfMjNfbWFpbl8zLjBfcDBoYzBfc2QifQ%3D%3D&rl=300&vabr=107&oh=844f10d1875913b1984300ec0236b882&oe=55DF6920
At root, it is a sense of disconnection from self and others, and as he points out, our culture is founded, economically and psychologically, on emotional dissociation, on methods of distraction.