Flourishing After Addiction with Carl Erik Fisher

About Flourishing After Addiction with Carl Erik Fisher

Addiction psychiatrist and bioethicist Carl Erik Fisher explores addiction and recovery from science to spirituality, from philosophy to politics, and everything in between. He interviews leading experts in areas such as psychology, neurobiology, history, sociology, and more--as well as policy makers, advocates, and people with lived experience. A core commitment of the show is we need more than medicine to truly understand addiction and recovery. The challenges and mysteries of this field run up against some of the central challenges of human life, like: what makes a life worth living, what are the limits of self control, and how can people and societies change for the better? These are enormous questions, and they need to be approached with humility, but there are also promising ways forward offered by refreshingly unexpected sources. There are many paths to recovery, and there is tremendous hope for changing the narrative, injecting more nuance into these discussions, and making flourishing in recovery possible for all. Please check out https://www.carlerikfisher.com to join the newsletter and stay in touch.

Publisher

Carl Erik Fisher

Category

health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

14 Aug 2021

Latest episode

10 Mar 2026

Latest episodes

48 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   10 Mar 2026

   How a Little Becomes a Lot, with Eric Zimmer

   Sign up for my newsletter and immediately receive my free guide to the many pathways to recovery, as well as regular updates on new interviews, material, and other writings. Today I’m sharing my conversation with my friend Eric Zimmer: author, teacher, person in recovery, and the creator of The One You Feed, an award-winning podcast with more than 50 million downloads and over 800 conversations exploring what it means to live a meaningful life. Eric, I should add, is one of the most req...

2. 

   15 Dec 2025

   What Addiction Science Got Wrong About Dopamine, with Dr. David Nutt

   Sign up for my newsletter and immediately receive my free guide to the many pathways to recovery, as well as regular updates on new interviews, material, and other writings. Today I’m sharing my conversation with Dr. David Nutt—Edmond J. Safra Professor of Neuropsychopharmacology at Imperial College London—one of the most influential and outspoken figures in modern psychiatric research and drug policy. It’s a wide-ranging chat about addiction science, pharmacology, and the past and futu...

3. 

   7 Nov 2025

   BONUS: Can You Become Addicted to AI? A conversation with neuroscientist Tim Requarth on AI dependency, cognitive shortcuts, and what AI is doing to our brains

   Sign up for my newsletter and immediately receive my free guide to the many pathways to recovery, as well as regular updates on new interviews, material, and other writings. This is a special audio edition of my recent Substack conversation with neuroscientist and writer Tim Requarth. The full post—including the video and more detailed show notes—is available on my Substack. Neuroscientist, writer, and NYU faculty member Tim Requarth joins me to talk about what "AI dependency" really me...

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.8 / 5

68 ratings

Spotify

4.6 / 5

39 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 21 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

9

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

85

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