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Special Episode: Exploring The Different Paths to Recovery

In this special episode, Eric is joined by Laura Cathcart Robbins, Carl Erik Fisher, and Holly Whitaker to share their personal experiences with addiction and recovery. Their discussion explores the complex definitions of recovery, challenging the conventional norms and emphasizing the need for a broader and more inclusive approach.

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In this special episode, Eric is joined by Laura Cathcart Robbins, Carl Erik Fisher, and Holly Whitaker to share their personal experiences with addiction and recovery. Their discussion explores the complex definitions of recovery, challenging the conventional norms and emphasizing the need for a broader and more inclusive approach.

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What We’re Reading 2023

Enjoy a fresh batch of year-end book reports from all of the readers, writers, and editors at JSTOR Daily!

JSTOR Daily
Enjoy a fresh batch of year-end book reports from all of the readers, writers, and editors at JSTOR Daily!

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ADDICTION: Breaking the Addiction Binary (Carl Erik Fisher, M.D.)

“I want to say that it's not just some idea about suffering, it's also a function of social and economic systems that are deliberately weaponizing an individualized view..."

Pulling the Thread with Elise Loehnen

“I want to say that it's not just some idea about suffering, it's also a function of social and economic systems that are deliberately weaponizing an individualized view..."

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Psychiatry at the Margins: Mixed Bag (#12: Carl Erik Fisher on Addiction)

Awais Aftab
”“Mixed Bag” is a series where I ask an expert to select 5 items to explore a particular topic: a book, a concept, a person, an article, and a surprise item (at the expert’s discretion)”

Awais Aftab

““Mixed Bag” is a series where I ask an expert to select 5 items to explore a particular topic: a book, a concept, a person, an article, and a surprise item (at the expert’s discretion)”

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Will future generations turn away from alcohol?

Future Tense, ABC Radio Australia
“Drinking has been part of our social and cultural activities for centuries. But cultural norms appear to be shifting. So, could alcohol go the way of cigarettes and become socially unacceptable?.”



Featured on ABC’s radio show and podcast, Future Tense, “A critical look at new technologies, new approaches, and new ways of thinking"

Future Tense, ABC Radio Australia

“Drinking has been part of our social and cultural activities for centuries. But cultural norms appear to be shifting. So, could alcohol go the way of cigarettes and become socially unacceptable?.”

Featured on ABC’s radio show and podcast, Future Tense, “A critical look at new technologies, new approaches, and new ways of thinking".”

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Carl Erik Fisher: Understanding Addiction

Practicing Podcast | Sam Freeman

“I’m twenty-nine years old, writing in my journal in a sloppy felt-tip pen (no ballpoints are allowed), trying to understand how I went from being a newly minted physician in a psychiatry residency program at Columbia University to a psychiatric patient at Bellevue, the city’s notorious public hospital.”

That’s a quote from the first page of Carl Erik Fisher’s The Urge: Our History of Addiction (Penguin Random House, 2022).

Practicing Podcast

“I’m twenty-nine years old, writing in my journal in a sloppy felt-tip pen (no ballpoints are allowed), trying to understand how I went from being a newly minted physician in a psychiatry residency program at Columbia University to a psychiatric patient at Bellevue, the city’s notorious public hospital.”

That’s a quote from the first page of Carl Erik Fisher’s The Urge: Our History of Addiction (Penguin Random House, 2022).

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Carl Erik Fisher: The Urge: Our History Of Addiction

Joshua Spodek

I almost couldn't believe someone could write a book like Carl Erik Fisher's The Urge: Our History of Addiction. It tells the histories of addiction in human society since antiquity and of him, addicted, including in medical school, jail, and recovery. I don't know how many people could have shared such vulnerability or connected his experience to the reader's so we feel empathy.

I almost couldn't believe someone could write a book like Carl Erik Fisher's The Urge: Our History of Addiction. It tells the histories of addiction in human society since antiquity and of him, addicted, including in medical school, jail, and recovery. I don't know how many people could have shared such vulnerability or connected his experience to the reader's so we feel empathy.

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Es el dolor lo que lleva a las personas a las adicciones

La Vanguardia (Spanish)

Soy neoyorquino, profesor en la Universidad de Columbia, Nueva York, y tengo mi consulta psiquiátrica. Estoy casado y tengo un hijo. Creo que es importante que los ciudadanos se impliquen en temas políticos, el aislamiento es uno de los factores depresivos. Soy budista zen practicante.

Soy neoyorquino, profesor en la Universidad de Columbia, Nueva York, y tengo mi consulta psiquiátrica. Estoy casado y tengo un hijo. Creo que es importante que los ciudadanos se impliquen en temas políticos, el aislamiento es uno de los factores depresivos. Soy budista zen practicante.

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De médico cocainómano a salvar adictos

El Mundo (Spanish)

Antes de convertirse en profesor asistente de psiquiatría y montar una clínica de desintoxicación, Carl Erik Fisher vivía una doble vida: estudiante modelo de día y drogadicto de noche. En 'Nuestra historia de las adicciones' relata su traumática experiencia y se sumerge en la historia milenaria de los estupefacientes

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The Best Books of 2022 So Far

The New Yorker

Our editors and critics choose this year’s most captivating, notable, brilliant, surprising, absorbing, weird, thought-provoking, and talked-about reads. Check back every Wednesday for new fiction and nonfiction recommendations.

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Dr. Carl Erik Fisher: Addiction. All [or so much of what] You Need To Know.

Future Tripping Podcast: Laura van Dernoot Lipsky, founder and director of The Trauma Stewardship Institute

A podcast about overwhelm Dr. Fisher and Laura discuss the critical truth that addiction is something that exists in all of us, and discuss strategies for coping and recovery, such as inquiry, curiosity, self-compassion, and acceptance.

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Flourishing After Addiction: Carl Erik Fisher, Psychiatrist in Recovery

The Reflective Doc Podcast

Join Dr. Jennifer Reid as she speaks with Carl Erik Fisher, MD, addiction psychiatrist, bioethicist, and person in recovery. He is the host of the Flourishing After Addiction Podcast as well as the author of The Urge: Our History of Addiction, sharing historical, ethical, and highly personal aspects of addiction treatment and recovery in the United States.

The Reflective Doc Podcast

Join Dr. Jennifer Reid as she speaks with Carl Erik Fisher, MD, addiction psychiatrist, bioethicist, and person in recovery. He is the host of the Flourishing After Addiction Podcast as well as the author of The Urge: Our History of Addiction, sharing historical, ethical, and highly personal aspects of addiction treatment and recovery in the United States.

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When Addiction Fails: On Carl Erik Fisher’s “The Urge”

Los Angeles Review of Books

Among this study’s many virtues is Fisher’s heartfelt acknowledgment that, in his prolonged dalliance with self-destruction, he was ultraprivileged with what he terms “recovery capital” — the money, prestige, and patience of work supervisors.

Los Angeles Review of Books

Among this study’s many virtues is Fisher’s heartfelt acknowledgment that, in his prolonged dalliance with self-destruction, he was ultraprivileged with what he terms “recovery capital” — the money, prestige, and patience of work supervisors.

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Carl Erik Fisher: Our History of Addiction

Courageously.u

Today we're talking about...

Why trying to trace addiction to one single cause can be misleading, why people keep using despite wanting to stop, how Freud championed cocaine as a “wonder drug”, why trying to eradicate addiction causes harm…

Today we're talking about...

Why trying to trace addiction to one single cause can be misleading, why people keep using despite wanting to stop, how Freud championed cocaine as a “wonder drug”, why trying to eradicate addiction causes harm…

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The History of Addiction with Carl Erik Fisher

The one you feed

Carl Erik Fisher is an addiction physician, bioethics scholar, and author He is an assistant professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia University and also hosts the podcast “Flourishing After Addiction” . In this episode, Eric and Carl Erik Fisher discuss his book, The Urge: Our History of Addiction.

The one you feed

Carl Erik Fisher is an addiction physician, bioethics scholar, and author  He is an assistant professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia University and also hosts the podcast “Flourishing After Addiction”

In this episode, Eric and Carl Erik Fisher discuss his book, The Urge:  Our History of Addiction.

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Heroin in 1940s America: ‘the work of this era only served to heighten the division between good and bad drugs’

Society for the Study of Addiction

In many ways, though, the work of this era only served to heighten the division between good and bad drugs – and good and bad drug users. An overly reductionist perspective on addiction, one heavily influenced by the biases and prejudices of the time, blinded society to the dangers on both sides of that divide.

Society for the Study of Addiction

In many ways, though, the work of this era only served to heighten the division between good and bad drugs – and good and bad drug users. An overly reductionist perspective on addiction, one heavily influenced by the biases and prejudices of the time, blinded society to the dangers on both sides of that divide.

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