There's a question here about really how addiction treatment in different countries. Some countries might be more inclined towards mutual aid or spiritual approaches, you know, and some might be more likely to medicalize it. So that's just one facet of the way that we have to recognize that even our problem attribution is bound up in our ideas about how we think the mind works. Helen Cheriski: Well, I'm very sorry we have to finish because there clearly is a huge amount more to discuss. Join us in email or a voice note with your thoughts at intelligencesquared.com.
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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