Carl Erik Fisher
@drcarlerik.bsky.social
Addiction psychiatrist, bioethicist, associate professor at Columbia University. | The Urge: Our History of Addiction (Penguin Press, 2022) | Rat Park newsletter--> carlerikfisher.substack.com
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This book is out TODAY! I put my whole heart into it. You can buy it wherever you buy books. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725681...
June 3, 2025 at 12:41 PM
This book is out TODAY! I put my whole heart into it. You can buy it wherever you buy books. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725681...
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My event on June 10 at The Strand is sold out but there are a few tickets left for the Brooklyn launch with Leslie Jamison at Public Records via Books Are Magic: www.eventbrite.com/e/offsite-me...
Offsite: Melissa Febos: The Dry Season w/ Leslie Jamison
“Only Melissa Febos could convince us of the ecstasy of abstinence. She never fails in her candor and precision.” —Katherine May
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May 31, 2025 at 5:31 PM
My event on June 10 at The Strand is sold out but there are a few tickets left for the Brooklyn launch with Leslie Jamison at Public Records via Books Are Magic: www.eventbrite.com/e/offsite-me...
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I’m excited for this podcast with @drcarlerik.bsky.social and @owenflanagan.bsky.social. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/f...
What Is It Like to Be an Addict? with Prof. Owen Flanagan
Podcast Episode · Flourishing After Addiction with Carl Erik Fisher · 2025-04-22 · 1h 6m
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April 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I’m excited for this podcast with @drcarlerik.bsky.social and @owenflanagan.bsky.social. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/f...
I got to interview Owen Flanagan, an excellent philosopher of addiction (and much more), about his new book, What Is It Like to Be an Addict?
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What Is It Like to Be an Addict? with Prof. Owen Flanagan | Flourishing After Addiction #40
"One cannot have a complete theory of addiction without incorporating the addict’s experience. Listen carefully to what addicts say about what it is like to be an addict."
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April 22, 2025 at 11:53 AM
I got to interview Owen Flanagan, an excellent philosopher of addiction (and much more), about his new book, What Is It Like to Be an Addict?
open.substack.com/pub/carlerik...
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relevant front page of FT today about the Trump memecoin today, which I discuss in my gambling essay
February 8, 2025 at 4:34 PM
relevant front page of FT today about the Trump memecoin today, which I discuss in my gambling essay
I have a new essay out in The New York Times today: "What Sports Betting Reveals About Addiction." I challenge some assumptions about addiction through the lens of America’s sports betting explosion, just in time for Super Bowl Sunday.
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Opinion | The Price We Pay Betting on Sports
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February 8, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I have a new essay out in The New York Times today: "What Sports Betting Reveals About Addiction." I challenge some assumptions about addiction through the lens of America’s sports betting explosion, just in time for Super Bowl Sunday.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/o...
I wrote about the paradox of self-control in addiction. open.substack.com/pub/carlerik...
Self-Control Matters in Addiction
The biomechanical disease folks are right that there is a there there, that when people with addiction say they feel powerless, we should take them (us) seriously. The choice folks are right that even...
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February 3, 2025 at 11:19 AM
I wrote about the paradox of self-control in addiction. open.substack.com/pub/carlerik...
Keith Humphreys and John Kelly setting the record straight
STAT contacted two of the authors of the review that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appeared to cite as evidence 12-step recovery is more effective than methadone or buprenorphine.
Both said he fundamentally misconstrued its meaning
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Both said he fundamentally misconstrued its meaning
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RFK Jr. endorses medications for opioid addiction at confirmation hearing, but misleads on 12-step programs
During his Thursday Senate confirmation hearing, RFK Jr. shed light for the first time on his attitudes toward medication-assisted treatment for opioid addiction.
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January 30, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Keith Humphreys and John Kelly setting the record straight
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RFK says he supports methadone and buprenorphine — but majorly misrepresents a study that he claimed shows 12-step programs are more effective vs. opioid addiction
(The study was exclusively about alcohol!)
www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/r...
(The study was exclusively about alcohol!)
www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/r...
RFK Jr. endorses medications for opioid addiction at confirmation hearing, but misleads on 12-step programs
During his Thursday Senate confirmation hearing, RFK Jr. shed light for the first time on his attitudes toward medication-assisted treatment for opioid addiction.
www.statnews.com
January 30, 2025 at 8:02 PM
RFK says he supports methadone and buprenorphine — but majorly misrepresents a study that he claimed shows 12-step programs are more effective vs. opioid addiction
(The study was exclusively about alcohol!)
www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/r...
(The study was exclusively about alcohol!)
www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/r...
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The Society for the Study of Addiction have just joined Bluesky. Please give them a follow! @ssa-addiction.bsky.social
January 29, 2025 at 3:32 PM
The Society for the Study of Addiction have just joined Bluesky. Please give them a follow! @ssa-addiction.bsky.social
Excellent new substack on publishing from a superstar agent!
January 23, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Excellent new substack on publishing from a superstar agent!
As a clinician and someone in recovery from a serious alcohol use problem, I find this paper very thoughtful and useful! Very good starting point and call to action. "Alcohol research has a problem with pleasure". I agree, but I would also suggest that pleasure research has a problem with pleasure
New 'For debate' paper in @addictionjournal.bsky.social in which we ask whether alcohol research needs to take pleasure more seriously. It's an invitation to discuss, so I'd be interested to hear views!
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Taking pleasure seriously: Should alcohol research say more about fun?
Background This paper invites discussion on whether pleasure should receive more attention in public health-oriented research on alcohol. While there is a history of sociological and anthropological...
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January 10, 2025 at 1:06 PM
As a clinician and someone in recovery from a serious alcohol use problem, I find this paper very thoughtful and useful! Very good starting point and call to action. "Alcohol research has a problem with pleasure". I agree, but I would also suggest that pleasure research has a problem with pleasure
Reposted by Carl Erik Fisher
New 'For debate' paper in @addictionjournal.bsky.social in which we ask whether alcohol research needs to take pleasure more seriously. It's an invitation to discuss, so I'd be interested to hear views!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Taking pleasure seriously: Should alcohol research say more about fun?
Background This paper invites discussion on whether pleasure should receive more attention in public health-oriented research on alcohol. While there is a history of sociological and anthropological...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 10, 2025 at 8:22 AM
New 'For debate' paper in @addictionjournal.bsky.social in which we ask whether alcohol research needs to take pleasure more seriously. It's an invitation to discuss, so I'd be interested to hear views!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Phil & psych folks, Richard Gipps @drgipps.bsky.social is on Bluesky! Give him a follow. Several years ago, when Richard joined Twitter, I made a similar announcement so that people would follow him. That was the beginning of a rewarding friendship ☺️ (1/4)
December 29, 2024 at 8:58 PM
Phil & psych folks, Richard Gipps @drgipps.bsky.social is on Bluesky! Give him a follow. Several years ago, when Richard joined Twitter, I made a similar announcement so that people would follow him. That was the beginning of a rewarding friendship ☺️ (1/4)
congrats on an excellent first lead-author paper, @mattflathers.bsky.social ! (in my somewhat biased opinion...)
Curious about how text-to-image diffusion models behave when prompted with psychiatric diagnosis inputs?
See examples and reflections in my first 1st author paper, now available in @BMJMentalHealth (free): mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/27/1...
See examples and reflections in my first 1st author paper, now available in @BMJMentalHealth (free): mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/27/1...
December 16, 2024 at 12:10 PM
congrats on an excellent first lead-author paper, @mattflathers.bsky.social ! (in my somewhat biased opinion...)
With great collaborators, I have a new paper in BMJ Mental Health. AI-generated imagery often amplifies harmful stereotypes about mental disorders. How models like DALL-E 3 and Midjourney shape public perceptions of mental illness. Here's a summary with some images:
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December 14, 2024 at 12:46 PM
With great collaborators, I have a new paper in BMJ Mental Health. AI-generated imagery often amplifies harmful stereotypes about mental disorders. How models like DALL-E 3 and Midjourney shape public perceptions of mental illness. Here's a summary with some images:
open.substack.com/pub/carlerik...
open.substack.com/pub/carlerik...
I was very happy to be involved with this study of AI depictions of psychiatric diagnoses--it shows how image generation models reflect cultural perceptions of mental disorders, including harmful bias. Open access: mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/27/1...
December 7, 2024 at 9:27 PM
I was very happy to be involved with this study of AI depictions of psychiatric diagnoses--it shows how image generation models reflect cultural perceptions of mental disorders, including harmful bias. Open access: mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/27/1...
I love the articulation of 'discursive pollution’ here- how commercial actors and forces "contaminate scientific and policy debates and harm public and environmental health." Nice angle on a big topic
“Health-harming industries seeking to avoid regulation or liability portray themselves as ‘part of the solution’, while shifting the blame for harms onto others” - @maizie333.bsky.social @markpetticrew.bsky.social et al new in @healthpromint.bsky.social
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Reclaiming the narrative: countering harmful commercial discourses
Abstract. The discourses promoted by powerful commercial actors whose business activities are damaging to health undermine the potential for the transforma
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December 6, 2024 at 8:38 PM
I love the articulation of 'discursive pollution’ here- how commercial actors and forces "contaminate scientific and policy debates and harm public and environmental health." Nice angle on a big topic
I wrote about the specific technology design features that can weaken our self-control. A brief review of some recent commentary and classification
What makes the internet addictive?
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What makes the internet addictive?
carlerikfisher.substack.com/p/what-makes...
What makes the internet addictive?
The next hellsites. What makes us stay online. Bluesky. The allure of simplicity and the inexorable pull toward complex design features eroding our self-control.
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December 4, 2024 at 6:39 PM
I wrote about the specific technology design features that can weaken our self-control. A brief review of some recent commentary and classification
What makes the internet addictive?
carlerikfisher.substack.com/p/what-makes...
What makes the internet addictive?
carlerikfisher.substack.com/p/what-makes...
This is a fascinating development: an official "Plain Language Big Book" of AA. The original book is from 1939 and uses really florid language at times, so this plain language version could be useful for anyone interested in mutual help for whom that's challenging. www.aa.org/sites/defaul...
www.aa.org
November 27, 2024 at 7:09 PM
This is a fascinating development: an official "Plain Language Big Book" of AA. The original book is from 1939 and uses really florid language at times, so this plain language version could be useful for anyone interested in mutual help for whom that's challenging. www.aa.org/sites/defaul...