Carl Erik Fisher

Carl Erik Fisher is an addiction physician, bioethicist, and assistant professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia University, where he works in the Division of Law, Ethics, and Psychiatry. He also maintains a private psychiatry practice focusing on complementary and integrative approaches to treating addiction. He is the author of the nonfiction book The Urge: Our History of Addiction, forthcoming from Penguin Press in January 2022. Born and raised in New Jersey, he currently lives between Brooklyn, New York, and Lisbon, Portugal, with his partner and son.