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By Edgar P. Nace and Joyce A. Tinsley. 224 pp. New York, W.W. Norton, 2007. $22.95. ISBN 978-0-393-70511-9.

The diagnosis and treatment of substance-abuse disorders are gaining the attention of physicians, and no wonder — in a given year, 9% of the U.S. population is found to be dependent on or to abuse alcohol, and almost 4% are dependent on illicit drugs. Nicotine dependence, a licit and actually greater cause of illness and death, affects some 20% of the population. Such problems are now discussed in most medical schools.

Psychiatry has a subspecialty certification for expertise in addiction, and there is a growing body of knowledge concerning how clinicians can and should bring their patients from the stage . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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