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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.
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“A compelling history. . . . Fisher, an addiction physician and a recovering addict, illustrates the ‘terrifying breakdown of reason’ that accompanies the condition by drawing on patients’ anecdotes and on his own experience.”—The New Yorker
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Five years in the making, this brilliant, in-depth investigative reporting on the history, politics, and science of alcoholism will show how AA became our nation's de facto treatment policy, even as evidence for more effective remedies accumulated. US of AA is a character-driven, beautifully written exposé, full of secrecy, irony, liquor industry money, the shrillest of scare tactics and, at its center, a grand deception. US of AA shines a much-needed spotlight on the addiction treatment industry. It will forever change the way we think about the entire enterprise.
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A Detailed History of Alcoholism
- De Tricia O. en 04-03-19
De: Joe Miller
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Crazy Like Us
- The Globalization of the American Psyche
- De: Ethan Watters
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 8 h y 57 m
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America has been the world leader in generating new mental health treatments and modern theories of the human psyche. We export our psychopharmaceuticals packaged with the certainty that our biomedical knowledge will relieve the suffering and stigma of mental illness. We categorize disorders, thereby defining mental illness and health, and then parade these seemingly scientific certainties in front of the world.
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He is a reporter...
- De Briana en 05-07-18
De: Ethan Watters
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Desperate Remedies
- Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness
- De: Andrew Scull
- Narrado por: Jonathan Keeble
- Duración: 18 h y 38 m
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For more than two hundred years, disturbances of the mind—the sorts of things that were once called "madness"—have been studied and treated by the medical profession. Mental illness, some insist, is a disease like any other, whose origins can be identified and from which one can be cured. But is this true? In this masterful account of America's quest to understand and treat everything from anxiety to psychosis, one of the most provocative thinkers writing about psychiatry today sheds light on its tumultuous past.
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A Great History but I Have One Big Reservation
- De Jeffrey Scot Minch en 08-02-22
De: Andrew Scull
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Smoke Signals
- A Social History of Marijuana - Medical, Recreational, and Scientific
- De: Martin A. Lee
- Narrado por: Nick Podehl
- Duración: 21 h y 36 m
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Martin A. Lee traces the dramatic social history of marijuana, from its origins to its emergence in the 1960s as a defining force in a culture war that has never ceased. Lee describes how the illicit marijuana subculture overcame government opposition and morphed into a dynamic, multibillion-dollar industry. Colorful, illuminating, and at times irreverent, this is a fascinating listen for recreational users and patients, students and doctors, musicians and accountants, Baby Boomers and their kids, and anyone who has ever wondered about the secret life of this ubiquitous herb.
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A hard book for me to rate
- De Blake en 05-08-13
De: Martin A. Lee
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Anatomy of an Epidemic
- Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America
- De: Robert Whitaker
- Narrado por: Ken Kliban
- Duración: 13 h y 57 m
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In this astonishing and startling book, award-winning science and history writer Robert Whitaker investigates a medical mystery: Why has the number of disabled mentally ill in the United States tripled over the past two decades? Every day, 1,100 adults and children are added to the government disability rolls because they have become newly disabled by mental illness, with this epidemic spreading most rapidly among our nations children. What is going on?
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The author does not use a fair scientific approach
- De Michael en 08-15-10
De: Robert Whitaker
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Manufacturing Depression
- The Secret History of a Modern Disease
- De: Gary Greenberg
- Narrado por: Kirby Heyborne
- Duración: 14 h y 10 m
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Am I happy enough? This has been a pivotal question since America's inception. "Am I not happy enough because I am depressed?" is a more recent version. Psychotherapist Gary Greenberg shows how depression has been manufactured---not as an illness but as an idea about our suffering, its source, and its relief. He challenges us to look at depression in a new way.
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Modern Gonzo Tour de Force
- De S. Frank en 11-12-11
De: Gary Greenberg
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This is Your Country on Drugs
- The Secret History of Getting High in America
- De: Ryan Grim
- Narrado por: Milton Bagby
- Duración: 10 h y 24 m
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Past antidrug campaigns actually encouraged drug use. A few years ago, America stopped dropping acid altogether. The meth epidemic peaked a long, long time ago. NAFTA opened the border and created a bonanza for cocaine and meth traffickers just as President Clinton knew it would. President Reagan may have inadvertently caused the crack epidemic. Kids today are doing fewer illegal drugs than kids from any time in the recent past, and for a surprising reason.
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A good book but....
- De steve en 10-28-10
De: Ryan Grim
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The Book of Woe
- The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry
- De: Gary Greenberg
- Narrado por: David Drummond
- Duración: 14 h
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For more than two years, author and psychotherapist Gary Greenberg has embedded himself in the war that broke out over the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (the DSM) - the American Psychiatric Association's (APA) compendium of mental illnesses and what Greenberg calls "the book of woe". Since its debut in 1952, the book has been frequently revised, and with each revision, the "official" view on which psychological problems constitute mental illness has changed.
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Disappointment
- De NYNM en 06-03-13
De: Gary Greenberg
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One Nation Under Therapy
- How the Helping Culture is Eroding Self-Reliance
- De: Christina Hoff Sommers, Sally Satel
- Narrado por: Dianna Dorman
- Duración: 8 h y 30 m
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Americans have traditionally placed great value on self-reliance and fortitude. Recent decades, however, have seen the rise of a therapeutic ethic that views Americans as emotionally underdeveloped, requiring the ministrations of mental-health professionals to cope with life's vicissitudes. Today, having a book for every ailment, a counselor for every crisis, a lawsuit for every grievance, and a TV show for every problem degrades one's native ability to cope with life's challenges.
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If you want another perspective
- De Kurt en 03-07-09
De: Christina Hoff Sommers, y otros
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Recover to Live
- Kick Any Habit, Manage Any Addiction: Your Self-Treatment Guide to Alcohol, Drugs, Eating Disorders, Gambling, Hoarding, Smoking, Sex, and Porn
- De: Christopher Kennedy Lawford
- Narrado por: Seth Michael Donsky
- Duración: 13 h y 42 m
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From New York Times bestselling author of Symptoms of Withdrawal and Moments of Clarity Christopher Kennedy Lawford comes a book that will save lives. For most of his early life, Christopher Kennedy Lawford battled life-threatening drug and alcohol addictions. Now in recovery for more than 25 years, he works to effect change and raise global awareness of addiction in nonprofit, private, and government circles, serving as the goodwill ambassador for drug dependence treatment and care for the United Nations.
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I didn't know I was a workaholic
- De wh en 06-17-13
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American Overdose
- The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts
- De: Chris McGreal
- Narrado por: Dan Woren
- Duración: 11 h y 55 m
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The opioid epidemic has been described as "one of the greatest mistakes of modern medicine." But calling it a mistake is a generous rewriting of the history of greed, corruption, and indifference that pushed the US into consuming more than 80 percent of the world's opioid painkillers. Journeying through lives and communities wrecked by the epidemic, Chris McGreal reveals not only how Big Pharma hooked Americans on powerfully addictive drugs but the corrupting of medicine and public institutions that let the opioid makers get away with it.
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An important read
- De Macmom4 en 02-18-19
De: Chris McGreal
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Suspicious Minds
- How Culture Shapes Madness
- De: Joel Gold, Ian Gold
- Narrado por: Joel Gold, Ian Gold
- Duración: 9 h y 51 m
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Mr. A. was admitted to Dr. Joel Gold’s inpatient unit at Bellevue Hospital in 2002. He was, he said, being filmed constantly, and his life was being broadcast around the world "like The Truman Show" - the 1998 film depicting a man who is unknowingly living out his life as the star of a popular soap opera. Over the next few years, Gold saw a number of patients suffering from what he and his brother, Dr. Ian Gold, began calling the "Truman Show Delusion," launching them on a quest to understand the nature of this particular phenomenon and the nature of madness itself.
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Intriguing
- De L. K. en 04-18-16
De: Joel Gold, y otros
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The Snapping of the American Mind
- De: David Kupelian
- Narrado por: Michael Bowen
- Duración: 8 h y 35 m
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In The Snapping of the American Mind, veteran journalist and best-selling author David Kupelian shows how the progressive Left - which today dominates America's key institutions, from the news and entertainment media, to education, to government itself - is accomplishing much more than just enlarging government, redistributing wealth, and de-Christianizing the culture.
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My first ever.
- De Jeanne Samson en 07-13-16
De: David Kupelian
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Flowers in the Blood
- The Story of Opium
- De: Jeff Goldberg, Dean Latimer, William Burroughs - introduction
- Narrado por: Stephen McLaughlin
- Duración: 12 h y 24 m
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Opium has played a dramatic and varied role in human history, inspiring religious veneration, scientific exploration, the bitterest rancor, and the most fanciful ecstasy. Now, authors Jeff Goldberg and Dean Latimer have provided a complete, insightful history of opium. Flowers in the Blood lifts the veil of mystery that has surrounded opium down through the ages.
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OPIATE DECRIMINALIZATION
- De chetyarbrough.blog en 06-18-14
De: Jeff Goldberg, y otros
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Undoing Drugs
- The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction
- De: Maia Szalavitz
- Narrado por: Samantha Desz
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From “one of the bravest, smartest writers about addiction anywhere” (Johann Hari, New York Times best-selling author) - the untold story of harm reduction, a surprisingly simple idea with enormous power.
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Wow! An amazing amount of harm reduction info!
- De Bobbi Jensen, Criminal Justice Consultant, Educator and Reform Activist en 09-19-21
De: Maia Szalavitz
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Civilized to Death
- The Price of Progress
- De: Christopher Ryan
- Narrado por: Christopher Ryan
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Most of us have instinctive evidence the world is ending - balmy December days, face-to-face conversation replaced with heads-to-screens zomboidism, a world at constant war, a political system in disarray. We hear some myths and lies so frequently that they feel like truths: Civilization is humankind’s greatest accomplishment. Progress is undeniable. Count your blessings. You’re lucky to be alive here and now. Civilized to Death counters the idea that progress is inherently good, arguing that the "progress" defining our age is analogous to an advancing disease.
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Congintive Dissonance
- De Konnor C en 12-06-19
De: Christopher Ryan
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The Verge
- Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years That Shook the World
- De: Patrick Wyman
- Narrado por: Patrick Wyman
- Duración: 11 h y 33 m
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In the best-selling tradition of The Swerve and A Distant Mirror, The Verge tells the story of a period that marked a decisive turning point for both European and world history. Here, author Patrick Wyman examines two complementary and contradictory sides of the same historical coin: the world-altering implications of the developments of printed mass media, extreme taxation, exploitative globalization, humanistic learning, gunpowder warfare, and mass religious conflict in the long term, and their intensely disruptive consequences in the short-term.
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Like the Podcast but Better.
- De Michael S. Labrow en 07-21-21
De: Patrick Wyman
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American Overdose
- The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts
- De: Chris McGreal
- Narrado por: Dan Woren
- Duración: 11 h y 55 m
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The opioid epidemic has been described as "one of the greatest mistakes of modern medicine." But calling it a mistake is a generous rewriting of the history of greed, corruption, and indifference that pushed the US into consuming more than 80 percent of the world's opioid painkillers. Journeying through lives and communities wrecked by the epidemic, Chris McGreal reveals not only how Big Pharma hooked Americans on powerfully addictive drugs but the corrupting of medicine and public institutions that let the opioid makers get away with it.
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An important read
- De Macmom4 en 02-18-19
De: Chris McGreal
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Unworthy Republic
- The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory
- De: Claudio Saunt
- Narrado por: Stephen Bowlby
- Duración: 11 h y 36 m
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In May 1830, the United States formally launched a policy to expel Native Americans from the East to territories west of the Mississippi River. Justified as a humanitarian enterprise, the undertaking was to be systematic and rational, overseen by Washington's small but growing bureaucracy. But as the policy unfolded over the next decade, thousands of Native Americans died under the federal government's auspices, and thousands of others lost their possessions and homelands in an orgy of fraud, intimidation, and violence.
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A Slow Burn
- De Hervé DuThé en 04-20-20
De: Claudio Saunt
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Journey of the Mind
- How Thinking Emerged from Chaos
- De: Ogi Ogas, Sai Gaddam
- Narrado por: Cary Hite
- Duración: 10 h y 15 m
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Why do minds exist? How did mud and stone develop into beings that can experience longing, regret, love, and compassion - beings that are aware of their own experience? Until recently, science offered few answers to these existential questions. Journey of the Mind is the first book to offer a unified account of the mind that explains how consciousness, language, the Self, and civilization emerged incrementally out of chaos.
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Consciousness: objectively physical yet subjective
- De Jeffrey W. Rudisel en 04-16-22
De: Ogi Ogas, y otros
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Undoing Drugs
- The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction
- De: Maia Szalavitz
- Narrado por: Samantha Desz
- Duración: 14 h y 3 m
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From “one of the bravest, smartest writers about addiction anywhere” (Johann Hari, New York Times best-selling author) - the untold story of harm reduction, a surprisingly simple idea with enormous power.
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Wow! An amazing amount of harm reduction info!
- De Bobbi Jensen, Criminal Justice Consultant, Educator and Reform Activist en 09-19-21
De: Maia Szalavitz
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Civilized to Death
- The Price of Progress
- De: Christopher Ryan
- Narrado por: Christopher Ryan
- Duración: 9 h y 20 m
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Most of us have instinctive evidence the world is ending - balmy December days, face-to-face conversation replaced with heads-to-screens zomboidism, a world at constant war, a political system in disarray. We hear some myths and lies so frequently that they feel like truths: Civilization is humankind’s greatest accomplishment. Progress is undeniable. Count your blessings. You’re lucky to be alive here and now. Civilized to Death counters the idea that progress is inherently good, arguing that the "progress" defining our age is analogous to an advancing disease.
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Congintive Dissonance
- De Konnor C en 12-06-19
De: Christopher Ryan
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The Verge
- Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years That Shook the World
- De: Patrick Wyman
- Narrado por: Patrick Wyman
- Duración: 11 h y 33 m
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In the best-selling tradition of The Swerve and A Distant Mirror, The Verge tells the story of a period that marked a decisive turning point for both European and world history. Here, author Patrick Wyman examines two complementary and contradictory sides of the same historical coin: the world-altering implications of the developments of printed mass media, extreme taxation, exploitative globalization, humanistic learning, gunpowder warfare, and mass religious conflict in the long term, and their intensely disruptive consequences in the short-term.
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Like the Podcast but Better.
- De Michael S. Labrow en 07-21-21
De: Patrick Wyman
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American Overdose
- The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts
- De: Chris McGreal
- Narrado por: Dan Woren
- Duración: 11 h y 55 m
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The opioid epidemic has been described as "one of the greatest mistakes of modern medicine." But calling it a mistake is a generous rewriting of the history of greed, corruption, and indifference that pushed the US into consuming more than 80 percent of the world's opioid painkillers. Journeying through lives and communities wrecked by the epidemic, Chris McGreal reveals not only how Big Pharma hooked Americans on powerfully addictive drugs but the corrupting of medicine and public institutions that let the opioid makers get away with it.
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An important read
- De Macmom4 en 02-18-19
De: Chris McGreal
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Unworthy Republic
- The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory
- De: Claudio Saunt
- Narrado por: Stephen Bowlby
- Duración: 11 h y 36 m
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In May 1830, the United States formally launched a policy to expel Native Americans from the East to territories west of the Mississippi River. Justified as a humanitarian enterprise, the undertaking was to be systematic and rational, overseen by Washington's small but growing bureaucracy. But as the policy unfolded over the next decade, thousands of Native Americans died under the federal government's auspices, and thousands of others lost their possessions and homelands in an orgy of fraud, intimidation, and violence.
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A Slow Burn
- De Hervé DuThé en 04-20-20
De: Claudio Saunt
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Journey of the Mind
- How Thinking Emerged from Chaos
- De: Ogi Ogas, Sai Gaddam
- Narrado por: Cary Hite
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Why do minds exist? How did mud and stone develop into beings that can experience longing, regret, love, and compassion - beings that are aware of their own experience? Until recently, science offered few answers to these existential questions. Journey of the Mind is the first book to offer a unified account of the mind that explains how consciousness, language, the Self, and civilization emerged incrementally out of chaos.
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Consciousness: objectively physical yet subjective
- De Jeffrey W. Rudisel en 04-16-22
De: Ogi Ogas, y otros
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Unbroken Brain
- A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction
- De: Maia Szalavitz
- Narrado por: Marisa Vitali
- Duración: 12 h y 35 m
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Challenging both the idea of the addict's "broken brain" and the notion of a simple "addictive personality", Unbroken Brain offers a radical and groundbreaking new perspective, arguing that addiction is a learning disorder, and shows how seeing the condition this way can untangle our current debates over treatment, prevention, and policy.
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Not what I expected
- De Jennifer Sader en 08-28-16
De: Maia Szalavitz
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Drug Use for Grown-Ups
- Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear
- De: Dr. Carl L. Hart
- Narrado por: Dr. Carl L. Hart
- Duración: 9 h y 47 m
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In Drug Use for Grown-Ups, he draws on decades of research and his own personal experience to argue definitively that the criminalization and demonization of drug use - not drugs themselves - have been a tremendous scourge on America, not least in reinforcing this country's enduring structural racism. Dr. Hart did not always have this view. He came of age in one of Miami's most troubled neighborhoods at a time when many ills were being laid at the door of crack cocaine. His initial work as a researcher was aimed at proving that drug use caused bad outcomes.
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Dr Carl Hart should be our drug Czar
- De Steven Todd Gordon en 01-19-21
De: Dr. Carl L. Hart
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Good Economics for Hard Times
- Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems
- De: Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo
- Narrado por: James Lurie
- Duración: 14 h y 45 m
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In this revolutionary book, renowned MIT economists Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo take on this challenge, building on cutting-edge research in economics explained with lucidity and grace. Original, provocative, and urgent, Good Economics for Hard Times makes a persuasive case for an intelligent interventionism and a society built on compassion and respect. It is an extraordinary achievement, one that shines a light to help us appreciate and understand our precariously balanced world.
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audio is not The best format for a book like this
- De CB en 12-08-19
De: Abhijit V. Banerjee, y otros
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Never Enough
- The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction
- De: Judith Grisel
- Narrado por: Judith Grisel
- Duración: 7 h y 18 m
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From a renowned behavioral neuroscientist and recovering addict, a rare pause-resisting work of science that draws on personal insights to reveal how drugs work, the dangerous hold they can take on the brain, and the surprising way to combat today's epidemic of addiction. Judith Grisel was a daily drug user and college dropout when she began to consider that her addiction might have a cure, one that she herself could perhaps discover by studying the brain. Now, after 25 years as a neuroscientist, she shares what she and other scientists have learned about addiction.
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The author ruined her own book with her narration
- De Milan en 05-03-19
De: Judith Grisel
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The Age of Fentanyl
- Ending the Opioid Epidemic
- De: Brodie Ramin MD
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 8 h y 2 m
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In this revealing analysis, Dr. Brodie Ramin tells the story of the opioid crisis, showing us the disease and cure from his perspective as an addiction doctor working on the front lines. We meet his patients, hear from other addiction experts, and learn about the science and medicine of opioid addiction and its treatments. He shows us how addiction can be prevented, how knowledge can reduce stigma, and how epidemics can be beaten.
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A Real Eye Opener with A Real Solution
- De Brandon B. en 01-05-23
De: Brodie Ramin MD
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The Least of Us
- De: Sam Quinones
- Narrado por: Tom Jordan
- Duración: 12 h y 49 m
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From the New York Times best-selling author of Dreamland, a searing follow-up that explores the terrifying next stages of the opioid epidemic and the quiet yet ardent stories of community repair.
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Top tier journalism and 100% honest
- De Anonymous User en 11-24-21
De: Sam Quinones
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When Crack Was King
- A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
- De: Donovan X. Ramsey
- Narrado por: Donovan X. Ramsey
- Duración: 11 h y 33 m
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The crack epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s is arguably the least examined crisis in American history. Beginning with the myths inspired by Reagan’s war on drugs, journalist Donovan X. Ramsey’s exacting analysis traces the path from the last triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement to the devastating realities we live with today: a racist criminal justice system, continued mass incarceration and gentrification, and increased police brutality.
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Essential chronicling of man-made epidemic
- De Amazon Customer en 07-18-23
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In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts
- Close Encounters with Addiction
- De: Gabor Maté MD
- Narrado por: Daniel Maté
- Duración: 16 h y 18 m
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In this timely and profoundly original book, best-selling writer and physician Gabor Maté looks at the epidemic of addictions in our society, tells us why we are so prone to them, and what is needed to liberate ourselves from their hold on our emotions and behaviours.
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Gabor should have been the narrator
- De Stacey en 08-16-19
De: Gabor Maté MD
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Dopesick
- De: Beth Macy
- Narrado por: Beth Macy
- Duración: 10 h y 16 m
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In this extraordinary work, Beth Macy takes us into the epicenter of a national drama that has unfolded over two decades. From the labs and marketing departments of big pharma to local doctor's offices; wealthy suburbs to distressed small communities in Central Appalachia; from distant cities to once-idyllic farm towns; the spread of opioid addiction follows a tortuous trajectory that illustrates how this crisis has persisted for so long and become so firmly entrenched.
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Useful, but recommend Dreamland instead
- De Sarah en 08-27-18
De: Beth Macy
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Arabs
- A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes, and Empires
- De: Tim Mackintosh-Smith
- Narrado por: Ralph Lister
- Duración: 25 h y 34 m
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This kaleidoscopic book covers almost 3,000 years of Arab history and shines a light on the footloose Arab peoples and tribes who conquered lands and disseminated their language and culture over vast distances. Tracing this process to the origins of the Arabic language, rather than the advent of Islam, Tim Mackintosh-Smith begins his narrative more than a thousand years before Muhammad and focuses on how Arabic, both spoken and written, has functioned as a vital source of shared cultural identity over the millennia.
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Good book bad narration
- De Anonymous User en 09-18-19
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Dreamland
- The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
- De: Sam Quinones
- Narrado por: Tom Jordan
- Duración: 14 h y 15 m
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In 1929, in the blue-collar city of Portsmouth, Ohio, a company built a swimming pool the size of a football field; named Dreamland, it became the vital centre of the community. Now, addiction has devastated Portsmouth, as it has hundreds of small rural towns and suburbs across America—addiction like no other the country has ever faced. How that happened is the riveting story of Dreamland.
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Excellent
- De Joe en 08-01-22
De: Sam Quinones
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Dopamine Nation
- Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
- De: Dr. Anna Lembke
- Narrado por: Dr. Anna Lembke
- Duración: 6 h y 11 m
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This book is about pleasure. It’s also about pain. Most important, it’s about how to find the delicate balance between the two, and why now more than ever finding balance is essential. We’re living in a time of unprecedented access to high-reward, high-dopamine stimuli: drugs, food, news, gambling, shopping, gaming, texting, sexting, Facebooking, Instagramming, YouTubing, tweeting....
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Interesting but feels incomplete
- De Chris en 09-02-21
De: Dr. Anna Lembke
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Urge
Calificaciones medias de los clientesReseñas - Selecciona las pestañas a continuación para cambiar el origen de las reseñas.
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- Paully
- 11-23-22
Nailed it
I’ve been podcasting on a addiction for nearly 8 years and love approach this book takes. To wage war on addiction is to wage war on our nature as humans. It’s part of us.
Great book.
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- Emily
- 01-18-23
Fascinating deep dive into the (mostly western) history of addiction
I particularly enjoyed the discussion of the disease model of addiction and whether or not it is a distinct disease or a compilation of related symptoms. Also the history of the war on drugs and it's impact on the recovery industrial complex. It does leave out the role od people of color in thr harm reduction movement. Overall very well written and researched.
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- graveydh
- 04-09-23
An objective look at addiction in America
This was by far the best book regarding addiction and recovery in America. It’s not a self help book, but it open up the opportunity to look at addiction as multi faceted and allows for new dialogue and solutions.
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- rae!
- 08-25-23
simply fascinating!!
i was hooked on this incredible information. super relatable. super interesting. ive been highly recommending this to my substance abuse recovery treatment doctors and all my friends.
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- treena meyer
- 04-21-22
The Best Addiction/Recovery Book
Fisher, busts many societal negatives about addiction through history, while opening up addiction to a overall human experience. While doing this he opens up opportunities for addicts, not to distress over, specific recovery practices. He stresses the importance of further medical studies, while not relying any quick fix. As with any problem, each of us are unique, but all share a human commonality of reacting to the disappointments of life. He suggests continually learning how to do it in a uniquely better way.
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- S.
- 12-31-22
Everyone should read this.
Until now, I’ve never read an articulate description of addiction from someone who has been there. Without hyperbole, melodrama, or mystery, the author unpacks his own experiences as both an alcoholic and a psychiatrist in a way that I found fascinating and helpful. I’m in a better position now to support friends who are struggling. Our world would be a much better place if this book was required reading at every high school and college.
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- Jhon Argersinger
- 06-25-23
Insightful
It help me understand my patients and myself when found in simular situations as described in the book.
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- Amazon Customer
- 02-10-24
Best research provided by any author on the subject
Thanks to the author for all the hard work in combining his personal story of addiction with a thorough understanding of the full history of how and where the addictive substances started. Friend of Bill
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- TDNYNJFL
- 05-21-23
boring!!!!
seriously boring. didn’t find one point interesting at relatable to todays addiction problems; especially from an adits perspective
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- Marjorie
- 03-07-22
a bit more than I wanted to know
About 80-90% of this book is devoted to a detailed history of addiction - to drugs, alcohol and more - and how people and governments tried to deal with the problem. The focus is largely on the US and mostly covers the 20th C to the present. The beginnings of each chapter describe the author's personal experience with addiction.
There were lots of interesting nuggets of information in the history sections, but I would have preferred a bit less history and more memoir. That's just me, and I think most people attracted to the title would be happy with the thoroughness of the history. I appreciated the author's deep dive into the racism behind how addiction is treated in poor, minority communities. I wish he had presented an equivalent feminist interpretation of the prevalence of addiction in women, especially from the mid-19th to mid-20th centuries.
The narrator was from the newscaster school of reading... just the facts, ma'am. This worked for the history, but it was not ideal for the memoir part. The memoir was already presented at a certain remove - one 'watched' the author's addiction unfold - a difficult story for a medical student to tell - but never got close to 'feeling' the experience.
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