addiction

"Violence, poverty, exile, loneliness, addiction and forgotten wars are issues that need to be acknowledged and narrated," the Pope said.

"Do not be afraid to confront the world’s wounds. Violence, poverty, exile, loneliness, addiction and forgotten wars are issues that need to be acknowledged and narrated," he said.

This week, Rachel Wolfe looks at why there might be a limit to the price increases consumers are willing to swallow—and whether we actually can break our addiction to buying cheap stuff.

For many people, opioid addiction begins with prescribed pain pills, such as OxyContin, before they increase their consumption and eventually turn to illicit drugs such as heroin and fentanyl, an extremely powerful synthetic opioid.

That has fueled an addiction to cheap stuff.