The first wave of temperance activism was much less focused on legal mechanisms. The best results, in terms of actually reducing the populate ans a drinking level, were when there as a more ar i wens one is a playful, but inegretive, halistic and a multi facited response to the problems of alcoholic epidemics.
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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