You're very honest about that in the book. When when you were suffering from adicton, you know, you were in an environment with doctors. And i think only by an accident of birth, only by accident of who i am and where i wound up, not by my own virtue, for sure. There's a shift away from this acute model to more of a chronic life span, life course model for helping people with the diction.
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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