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Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and The Boston Globe 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. A propulsive tour de force that is as healing as it is enjoyable to read." --Beth Macy, author of Dopesick As a psychiatrist in training fresh from medical school, Carl Erik Fisher found himself face-to-face with an addiction crisis that nearly cost him everything. Desperate to make sense of his condition, he turned to the history of addiction, learning that our society's current quagmire is only part of a centuries-old struggle to treat addictive behavior. A rich, sweeping account that probes not only medicine and science but also literature, religion, philosophy, and public policy, The Urge introduces us to those who have endeavored to address addiction through the ages and examines the treatments that have produced relief for many people, the author included. Only by reckoning with our history of addiction, Fisher argues, can we light the way forward for those whose lives remain threatened by its hold. The Urge is at once an eye-opening history of ideas, a riveting personal story of addiction and recovery, and a clinician's urgent call for a more nuanced and compassionate view of one of society's most intractable challenges.

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A must-have clinical resource that should have a place on every clinicians' shelf - now in a fully revised and updated second edition!Dr. Charles Atkins, board-certified psychiatrist, addictions specialist, and clinical trainer, brings the latest on effective treatment and recovery with Co-Occurring Disorders: A Whole-Person Approach to the Assessment and Treatment of Substance Use and Mental Disorders (2nd edition).Written in his signature straightforward style and packed with accessible clinical tools, it serves as a navigation guide through the complexities of co-occurring disorders, providing clarity where many clinicians find themselves stuck. This book is a must-have resource for the rubber-meets-the-road clinician, as well as the educators who train them. Now in its second edition, it covers: The latest research on health and wellness interventionsNew comprehensive case studiesTools from evidence-based treatment models, including: Motivational interviewingCognitive-behavioral strategiesSkills trainingMutual self-help & peer-based interventionsMindfulness trainingRecovery based strategiesFamily interventionsAssertive community treatment and targeted case managementPsychopharmacology including opioid and nicotine replacement strategies

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