The Urge Our History of Addiction
eBook - 2022
Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and The Boston GlobeAn 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. In the midst of an overdose crisis that grows worse by the hour and has vexed America for centuries, Fisher has given us the best prescription of all: understanding. He seamlessly blends a gripping historical narrative with memoir that doesn’t self-aggrandize; the result is a full-throated argument against bla...ming people with substance use disorder. The Urge is a propulsive tour de force that is as healing as it is enjoyable to read.” —Beth Macy, author of...
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Penguin Publishing Group
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- English
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File Size | 18 GB |
ISBN | 9780525561453 |
Release Date | 1/25/2022 |
Kindle Book | |
ASIN | B093B9QS33 |
Release Date | 1/25/2022 |
OverDrive Read eBook | |
ISBN | 9780525561453 |
Release Date | 1/25/2022 |