Carl Erik Fisher: Understanding Addiction

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).