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Myra K. Mercier: How do you catch addiction?

01:00 AM EDT on Saturday, July 4, 2009

Another round of arguments for addiction as illness. If addiction is illness, why is there no 12-step program for cancer, multiple sclerosis, ALS, etc., and how in the world do you catch “addiction”?

MYRA K. MERCIER

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