The Urge: our history of addiction by Carl Erik Fisher

The Urge: our history of addiction

Carl Erik Fisher

400 pages first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction history psychology emotional informative medium-paced

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An 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 hims...

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sad 10%
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tense 1%

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