Carl Erik Fisher on The 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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Carl Erik Fisher and I Discuss The History of Addiction and …


His book,  The Urge:  Our History of Addiction.
Recognizing the paradigm of disordered choice in addiction
The different approaches to understanding choices for addicts
Psychological flexibility and how
Society’s categorical views of treatment approaches to addiction
Placebo effects in treating addiction
The dangers of labeling “good” drugs and “bad” drugs
Drug policies and why there is no simple formula for treating addiction
How addiction is part of the human condition
Defining recovery capital
Understanding there are many different pathways to recovery
The step care model and one size fits all model of recover
The spiritual practice that he developed in recovery
Knowing that the key to overcoming addiction is to try

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