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Editorial: A New Public Understanding About Addiction

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    Ilana Crome MD, FRCPsych

  2. The Treatment Research Institute, 600 Public Ledger Bld., 150 S. Independence Mall, Philadelphia, PA, 19106, USA

    A. Thomas McLellan PhD

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Crome, I., McLellan, A.T. Editorial: A New Public Understanding About Addiction. Public Health Rev 35, 1 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03391700

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