The UrgeBy: Carl Erik Fisher Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and The Boston Globe An authoritative, illuminating, and deeply humane history of addictiona phenomenon that remains baffling and deeply misunderstood despite having touched countless livesby an addiction psychiatrist striving to understand his own family and himself Carl Erik Fishers The Urge is the best written and most incisive book Ive read on the history of addiction. A