We need some reasonable, compassionate, healthy dose of regulation across the board here. A totally d regulated lase fare, a market economy approach to potentially harmful substances is clearly out the window. We see that obviously in the case of the pedu farma in the sacklers and over and over again when stimulants were first introduced. At both those extremes we cause much more harm than good.
Carl Erik Fisher is a psychiatrist, bioethicist and recovering alcoholic who has spent years tracing the history of addiction. His new book is The Urge: Our History of Addiction, a sweeping study of the issue and an urgent call for a more expansive, nuanced and compassionate view of one of society's most difficult challenges. In conversation with Carl is physicist, oceanographer and science presenter, Helen Czerski.
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