Archive - Rat Park with Carl Erik Fisher

Unwinding Self-Addiction, with Dr. Jud Brewer | Flourishing After Addiction #41

"I’ve never found a case where I was taking something personally and wasn’t suffering."

Jun 8 •

Carl Erik Fisher

May 2025

A Book Deal (and some great interviews)!

Self-control and everyday addictions, emotional sobriety, and more

May 27 •

Carl Erik Fisher

April 2025

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…

Apr 22 •

Carl Erik Fisher

February 2025

Understanding self-control

trying not to doomscroll and snack my way to misery. doing the things that wisdom dictates instead.

Feb 27 •

Carl Erik Fisher

My NY Times Essay: What Sports Betting Reveals About Addiction

What’s different now isn’t the underlying susceptibility, it’s that technology and concentrated commercial power have made these vulnerabilities…

Feb 8 •

Carl Erik Fisher

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…

Feb 3 •

Carl Erik Fisher

December 2024

October 2024

Fentanyl Nation: Toxic Politics and America’s Failed War on Drugs, with Ryan Hampton | Flourishing After Addiction #39

"Without question, the biggest barrier I see ahead of us is politics. In such a polarized moment, addiction is a rare subject on which most of us…

Oct 30, 2024 •

Carl Erik Fisher

Trouble on the Horizon

Preliminary notes on Lisbon Addictions 2024

Oct 25, 2024 •

Carl Erik Fisher

First in the Family, with Jessica Hoppe | Flourishing After Addiction #38

"I needed to break free of my addiction to drugs and alcohol but also of my addiction to being first, to being excellent and exceptional."

Oct 4, 2024 •

Carl Erik Fisher

August 2024

The Zen Way of Recovery, with Laura Burges | Flourishing After Addiction #37

"Buddhism did not cure my alcoholism"

Aug 21, 2024 •

Carl Erik Fisher

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