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Addiction: A Disorder of Choice
by Gene M. Heyman
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Harvard University Press 
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2009 
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0-674-03298-5 
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Reviewed by Gary Greenburg, 7/28/2009

IN 1942, doctors sitting on the Research Council on Problems of Alcohol found themselves powerless to resolve America's confusions about alcoholism. The repeal of Prohibition laws had taken chronic drunkenness off the police blotter, but physicians were unable to claim it as their territory. Instead they were losing out to the temperance-minded clergy and other public scolds who had inspired the introduction of Prohibition...

Continue reading this review at New Scientist (Jul 27 2009)

Originally Published In : New Scientist, issue 2718

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