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Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and The Boston Globe 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...

Una historia auténtica, reveladora y profundamente humana de la adicción (un fenómeno que sigue siendo desconcertante e incomprendido a pesar de haber afectado a muchas vidas) de un psiquiatra especialista en adicciones que se esfuerza por comprender a su propia familia y a sí mismo. Incluso...

Una historia auténtica, reveladora y profundamente humana de la adicción (un fenómeno que sigue siendo desconcertante e incomprendido a pesar de haber afectado a muchas vidas) de un psiquiatra especialista en adicciones que se esfuerza por comprender a su propia familia y a sí mismo. Incluso...

Addiction psychiatrist and bioethicist Carl Erik Fisher explores addiction and recovery from science to spirituality, from philosophy to politics, and everything in between. He interviews leading experts in areas such as psychology, neurobiology, history, sociology, and more--as well as policy makers, advocates, and people with lived experience.A core commitment of the show is we need more than medicine to truly understand addiction and recovery. The challenges and mysteries of this field run up against some of the central challenges of human life, like: what makes a life worth living, what ...