Carl Erik Fisher, MD is an addiction psychiatrist, bioethics scholar, person in recovery, and author of the 2022 book The Urge: Our History of Addiction. He is an assistant professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia University, where he works on law, ethics, and policy relating to psychiatry and neuroscience.
Carl- Speaking of rat park, I imagine you've heard/read Chasing the Scream by Johann Hari. Have any thoughts about the book? It was my 'introduction' to addiction.
Carl- Speaking of rat park, I imagine you've heard/read Chasing the Scream by Johann Hari. Have any thoughts about the book? It was my 'introduction' to addiction.
I don't understand why Carl says that we can't equate "habitual drunkenness" with addiction.