Drug Dependence, a Chronic Medical Illness
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Author Affiliations: The Treatment Research Institute, Philadelphia, Pa (DrMcLellan); The Penn/VA center for Studies of Addiction at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center and the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (Drs McLellan and O'Brien); The Brown University Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Providence, RI (Dr Lewis); and The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, New York, NY (Dr Kieffer ).
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تاریخ انتشار 2017