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Date:	2021	Format:	epub	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	0525561447
Pages:	400	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
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An authoritative, illuminating, and deeply humane history of addictiona phenomenon that remains baffling and deeply misunderstood despite having touched countless livesby an addiction psychiatrist striving to understand his own family and himself

Carl Erik Fishers The Urge is the best-written and most incisive book Ive read on the history of addiction. In the midst of an overdose crisis that grows worse by the hour and has vexed America for centuries, Fisher has given us the best prescription of all: understanding. He seamlessly blends a gripping historical narrative with memoir that doesnt self-aggrandize  the result is a full-throated argument against blaming people with substance use disorder. is a propulsive tour de force that is as healing as it is enjoyable to read.

Even after a decades-long opioid overdose crisis, intense controversy still rages over the fundamental nature of addiction and the best way to treat it. With uncommon empathy and erudition, Carl Erik Fisher draws on his own experience as a clinician, researcher, and alcoholic in recovery as he traces the history of a phenomenon that, centuries on, we hardly appear closer to understandinglet alone addressing effectively.
 
As a psychiatrist-in-training fresh from medical school, Fisher was soon face-to-face with his own addiction crisis, one that nearly cost him everything. Desperate to make sense of the condition that had plagued his family for generations, he turned to the history of addiction, learning that the current quagmire is only the latest iteration of a centuries-old story: humans have struggled to define, treat, and control addictive behavior for most of recorded history, including well before the advent of modern science and medicine.
 
A rich, sweeping account that probes not only medicine and science but also literature, religion, philosophy, and public policy, illuminates the extent to which the story of addiction has persistently reflected broader questions of what it means to be human and care for one another. Fisher introduces us to the people who have endeavored to address this complex condition through the ages: physicians and politicians, activists and artists, researchers and writers, and of course the legions of people who have struggled with their own addictions. He also examines the treatments and strategies that have produced hope and relief for many people with addiction, himself included. Only by reckoning with our history of addiction, he arguesour successes and our failurescan we light the way forward for those whose lives remain threatened by its hold.
 
is at once an eye-opening history of ideas, a riveting personal story of addiction and recovery, and a clinicians urgent call for a more expansive, nuanced, and compassionate view of one of societys most intractable challenges.
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