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#12 "I was still left with this big question: what exactly had gone wrong in me?"

9 Questions with Dr. Carl Fisher, author of The Urge, on the disease model, addiction supply industries, the difference between faith and hope, and the history and future of recovery

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Holly Whitaker
Mar 21, 2022
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I first read about Dr. Carl Erik Fisher, the author of the recently published The Urge: Our History of Addiction (public library), in The New York Times, in an Op-Ed about why calling addiction a dis…

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