The urge : our history of addiction / Carl Erik Fisher.
By: Fisher, Carl Erik [author.].
Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, ©2022Description: xxi, 377 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780525561446.Subject(s): Fisher, Carl Erik, -- Mental health | Addicts -- History | Psychiatrists -- United States -- Biography | Alcoholics -- Biography | Alcoholics -- Rehabilitation -- BiographyGenre/Form: Print books.Summary: "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 himself"--Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [305]-359) and index.
"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 himself"--