A History of Addiction: An audience with Dr Carl Erik Fisher
Tue, 10 Oct
|Webinar
Dr Carl Erik Fisher is an addiction physician, bioethicist, and person in recovery. During this one-hour webinar we'll explore what he's learned from his personal and professional journeys, and how we can create a more expansive, nuanced and compassionate approach to addressing addiction.
Time & Location
10 Oct 2023, 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm AEDT
Webinar
About the event
During this one-hour webinar Clean Slate Clinic CEO, Pia Clinton-Tarestad and Medical Director, Dr Chris Davis, will explore with Dr Carl Erik Fisher what he's learned from his personal and professional journeys, and how we can create a more expansive, nuanced and compassionate approach to addressing addiction in today's society.
Dr Carl Erik Fisher is an addiction physician, bioethicist, and person in recovery. He is an expert in addiction and recovery who has sought to make sense of topics like self-control, suffering, and behavioral change across an unexpected variety of topics and fields: not just science and medicine, but also history, spirituality, philosophy, politics, arts and literature, and more. Through deep investigations of these surprising perspectives, Carl seeks out the ideas and practices that help all people flourish in their lives.
Dr. Fisher is the author of the nonfiction book The Urge: Our History of Addiction, published by Penguin Press…