How do we distinguish between healthy and unhealthy forms of addiction? What impact has covet had on all this yet? Is loneliness, a trip, a trigger for adictive behavior a. Have there been any other studies that suggest covet has increased suicides?
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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