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Chandler RK, et al. “Treating Drug Abuse and Addiction in the Criminal Justice System: Improving Public Health and Safety,” Journal of the American Medical Association (Jan. 14, 2009): Vol. 301, No. 2, pp. 183–90. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=19141766

Koob GF, et al. “Neurocircuitry of Addiction,” Neuropsychopharmacology (Jan. 2010): Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 217–38. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=19710631

McLellan AT, et al. “Drug Dependence, A Chronic Medical Illness: Implications for Treatment, Insurance, and Outcomes Evaluation,” Journal of the American Medical Association (Oct. 4, 2000): Vol. 284, No. 13, pp. 1689–695. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=11015800

National Institute on Drug Abuse. Drugs, Brains, and Behavior: The Science of Addiction (National Institutes of Health, Aug. 2010).

Potenza MN, et al. “Neuroscience of Behavioral and Pharmacological Treatments for Addictions,” Neuron (Feb. 24, 2011): Vol. 69, No. 4, pp. 695–712. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=21338880

Shaffer HJ, ed. Overcoming Addiction: Paths Towards Recovery (Harvard Medical School, 2008).

Shaffer HJ, et al. “Toward a Syndrome Model of Addiction: Multiple Expressions, Common Etiology,” Harvard Review of Psychiatry (Nov.–Dec. 2004): Vol. 12, No. 6, pp. 367–74. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=15764471

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. National Survey on Drug Use & Health, 2009.

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