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Book Reviews
Theory of Addiction. By Robert West. Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, UK. 2006, 211pp., £24.99. ISBN: 1-4051-1359-6
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The distinguished psychologist Robert West invites the reader to join him in a journey through the thickets of addiction to see if it is possible to produce a unified theory of an extremely complex phenomenon. In places, he characterizes his monograph as