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3.93 AVERAGE
3.93 AVERAGE
Finished thr introduction and just not in the right mood for this
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incredible, enlightening, deeply empathetic. A massively articulate history about one of the most socially complex things we face as human beings. I am moved and changed.
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The Urge by Carl Erik Fisher is a free NetGalley ebook that I had read in late February.
Coming off from watching a season of Midnight Mass and working front desk at a counseling office, I am totally ready for this book. Fisher explores addiction throughout history and finding reasonable, not insanely multidisciplinary ways to address it from both the author’s research and personal experiences. This approach is, and I apologize for my coarsely ironic phrasing, a perfect and comprehensive cocktail of philosophy, history, and biography that describes the depths that people under the influence can go, the tremendous strength to endure an addiction and to go without vice(s), crackpot and technologically streamlined cures, temperance movements, drug use, incarceration as cure, vilifying the addicted for their race and social class, and detox & rehab treatment.
Coming off from watching a season of Midnight Mass and working front desk at a counseling office, I am totally ready for this book. Fisher explores addiction throughout history and finding reasonable, not insanely multidisciplinary ways to address it from both the author’s research and personal experiences. This approach is, and I apologize for my coarsely ironic phrasing, a perfect and comprehensive cocktail of philosophy, history, and biography that describes the depths that people under the influence can go, the tremendous strength to endure an addiction and to go without vice(s), crackpot and technologically streamlined cures, temperance movements, drug use, incarceration as cure, vilifying the addicted for their race and social class, and detox & rehab treatment.
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I found the mix of history and personal anecdotes to tell the story well. Was very interesting to learn about the ways that the USA has traditionally handled addiction as well as what things are being done today.
clearly written, well researched and documented personal experience. Perhaps I was just not in the mood for it, but I found it to be less enlightening than promised, in part because the focus seemed to be on the US. May come back to it eventually as a light non-fiction.
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