#1148 Owen Flanagan: What Is It Like to Be an Addict?

Hello, everyone, welcome to a new episode of The Desenter. I'm your host, as always, Ricard Lopes, and today I'm joined by your return guest, Dr. Owen Flanagan. He is James B. Duke, distinguished professor emeritus of philosophy at Duke University, and today we're going to talk about his latest book. What is it like to be an addict understanding substance abuse? So Doctor Flanagan, welcome back to the show. It's always a pleasure to have you. Likewise for me, Ricardo. It's always nice to see you.

So why did you decide to write the book on addiction addiction? I mean, does it relate in any way to the rest of your body of work? Yes. Thank you for that question. Um so um Well, it was the complicated both scholarly and Um personal decision.

And uh so the you know the main part of the backstory is that I was addicted to alcohol and to benzodiazepine, so kind of a anxiety. for for your listeners who aren't up on these things. The benzodiazepines are Drugs like Valium and Adavan and the Larazopam, Xanax. Um my favorite was something called Clonazepam.

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