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Most flawed of all is the notion that addicts are in touch with profound mysteries of which nonaddicts. Romancing opiates seeks to expose the willful misconceptions, the lies and evasions, of the past two hundred years with regard to opiate addiction. Dee, in an event sponsored by the manhattan institute at. Pharmacological lies and the addiction bureaucracy 2006, social studies in praise of prejudice.
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