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Love and addiction: an uneasy marriage? A response to “The devil is in the differences”

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Burkett, J., Young, L. Love and addiction: an uneasy marriage? A response to “The devil is in the differences”. Psychopharmacology 224, 31–32 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-012-2881-z

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