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Previous Volume 357:1671-1672 October 18, 2007 Number 16

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By Carlton K. Erickson. 290 pp., illustrated. New York, W.W. Norton, 2007. $32. ISBN 978-0-393-70463-1.

Recent advances in addiction medicine have been driven by advances in neurobiology. In The Science of Addiction, Carlton Erickson attempts to enlighten the caregivers of patients with substance abuse problems and the patients themselves about advancements in the science of addiction so that clinicians will, as Erickson explains in the book's preface, "empathize with their patients and apply such science to principles of treatment." This is an ambitious goal and a broad audience.

The book is organized in a traditional and well-considered manner. Basic terminology, neuroanatomy, neurobiology, and the genetics of addiction are reviewed; the effects of drugs are . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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