The Urge: Our History of Addiction

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 0525561463 ISBN13: 9780525561460 Release Date: January 2023 Publisher: Penguin Books Length: 400 Pages Weight: 0.76 lbs. Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.2" Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and The Boston Globe An authoritative, illuminating, and deeply humane history of addiction--a phenomenon that remains baffling and deeply misunderstood despite having touched countless lives--by an addiction psychiatrist striving to understand his own family and himself "Carl Erik Fisher's The Urge is the best-written and most incisive book I've read on the history of addiction. A propulsive tour de force that is as healing as it is enjoyable to read." --Beth Macy, author of Dopesick As a psychiatrist in training fresh from medical school, Carl Erik Fisher found himself face-to-face with an addiction crisis that nearly cost him everything. Desperate to make sense of his condition, he turned to the history of addiction, learni