#12 "I was still left with this big question: what exactly had gone wrong in me?"

9 Questions with Dr. Carl Fisher, author of The Urge, on the disease model, addiction supply industries, the difference between faith and hope, and the history and future of recovery

I first read about Dr. Carl Erik Fisher, the author of the recently published The Urge: Our History of Addiction (public library), in The New York Times, in an Op-Ed about why calling addiction a disease is misleading, and then I reached out to him so I could make him my friend, which I have succeeded at.

We’ve had a few really fascinating conversations…