The Urge: Our History of Addiction

by Carl Erik Fisher

Book Overview

One of The New Yorker's Best Books of 2022

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

"Carl Erik Fisher's The Urge is the best-written and most incisive book I've read on the history of addiction. In the midst...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525561447
• ISBN13: 9780525561446
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Penguin Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"