The Urge : : our History of Addiction
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Behavior in search of a name -- The age of intemperance -- The roots of modern addiction.
"An authoritative, illuminating, and deeply humane history of addiction-a phenomenon that remains baffling and deeply misunderstood despite having touched countless lives-by an addiction psychiatrist striving to understand his own family and himself"-- Provided by publisher.
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 understanding--let alone addressing effectively.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Penguin Press, 2022.
Year Published: 2022
Description: 377 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780525561446
0525561447
SUBJECTS
Fisher, Carl Erik -- Mental health.
Addicts -- History.
Psychiatrists -- United States -- Biography.
Alcoholics -- Biography.
Alcoholics -- Rehabilitation -- Biography.
Compulsive behavior -- History.
Substance abuse -- History.
Compulsive behavior -- Treatment.
Substance abuse -- Treatment.