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The urge our history of addiction

"An authoritative, illuminating and deeply humane history of addiction -- by a therapist who has reached the depths of addiction himself. Even in the midst of a period of staggering drug abuse that we can confidently call a crisis, questions about the fundamental nature of addiction, its origins, an...

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Main Author: Fisher, Carl Erik (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Penguin Press, 2022.
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Fisher, Carl Erik > Mental health.
Addicts > History.
Psychiatrists > United States > Biography.
Alcoholics > Biography.
Alcoholics > Rehabilitation > Biography.
Compulsive behavior > History.
Substance abuse > History.
Compulsive behavior > Treatment.
Substance abuse > Treatment.
Alcoholism.
Autobiographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Behavior in search of a name
  • Foundations: before "addiction"
  • Epidemics
  • A disease in the will
  • The age of intemperance
  • Possession
  • The first American opioid epidemic
  • Junkies
  • The roots of modern addiction
  • The modern alcoholism movement
  • Good drugs and bad drugs
  • Addiction on trial
  • Rehabilitation
  • Zero tolerance
  • Understanding addiction.

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