Survival of the Coolest: A Darwin's Death Defying Journey into the Interior of Addiction

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William Pryor

William Pryor is Director of Unhooked Thinking - "an unusual, international and multi-disciplinary conference enquiring into the nature of addiction."

He is author of the book Survival of the Coolest - A Darwin's Death Defying Journey into the Interior of Addiction.

By William Pryor

Published on 05/7/2007

William Pryor, a great-great-grandson of Charles Darwin, was a heroin and then alcohol addict for twelve years in the sixties and seventies. He brushed death several times, but, against overwhelming odds, survived, and, in 1975, was one of the first patients at the first American-style addiction treatment centre in Europe. His experiences - and subsequent transformation to non-addiction - have given him a unique insight into the world of hard drugs and addiction.