Book Interview: Carl Fisher discusses the war on addiction and 'The Urge'

"Beginning his investigations during an opioid overdose epidemic in the United States, Fisher learned that human societies have been wracked by drug epidemics with dismaying regularity for more than half a millennium."

Carl Fisher: a look at the 'war on drugs' occurs through a predictably American lens

• The Urge 
• Carl Fisher 
• Penguin, €26.99