i think there's great cause for hope in terms of humanizing notions of mental conditions, and especially a diction a that it's on an usthem problem. A narrowness of thinking about ar diction sometimes leads to a sense of fatalism or hopelessness. There are many different pathways to help quite a number of which are not immediately apparent but e options are out there.
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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