Changing the Language of Addiction.

@article{Botticelli2016ChangingTL,
  title={Changing the Language of Addiction.},
  author={Michael P Botticelli and Howard K. Koh},
  journal={JAMA},
  year={2016},
  volume={316 13},
  pages={
          1361-1362
        },
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:205073072}
}
  • M. BotticelliH. Koh
  • Published in Journal of the American… 4 October 2016
  • Psychology, Medicine, Linguistics
  • JAMA
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