The Urge - Audiobook, by Carl Erik Fisher

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Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and The Boston GlobeAn authoritative, illuminating, and deeply humane history of addictiona phenomenon that remains baffling and deeply misunderstood despite having touched countless livesby an addiction psychiatrist striving to understand his own family and himselfCarl Erik Fishers The Urge is the best-written and most incisive book Ive read on the history of addiction. In the midst of an overdose crisis that grows worse by the hour and has vexed America for centuries, Fisher has given us the best prescription of all: understanding. He seamlessly blends a gripping historical narrative with memoir that doesnt self-aggrandize; the result is a f…