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What is addiction? Is it only alcoholism and drug addiction, or are we just as addicted to gambling, sex, food, work, smartphones, and even love? Carl Eric Fisher knows this ancient affliction particularly intimately - as an addiction psychiatrist and as a patient. He spent a decade researching and writing this book, examining the multifaceted history of addiction - medical, political, philosophical, cultural, religious. Fisher set out not only to explore every possible cure and therapy, but also to discover why a disease that has touched the lives of millions of people is still reviled and misunderstood. How do we get trapped in addiction and why is it so difficult to escape from it, even in the face of death? Can it ever be eradicated? And what in our bodies resists recovery? One thing is clear: the path to healing must begin with compassion. It is only through compassion that we can shift our focus from the disease to its victims and understand how to help them.
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