Dan:
    1.  The book says phone orders can be placed for the book to 1-888-547-8271.  $19.95 plus $5 shipping & handling. http://www.chestnut.org  I have the e-mail  [log in to unmask] for the author.
    2.  Have her try http://www.bks.no/online.htm   It gives links to about 600 items, including a secxtion on "addiction and the disease concept".  Robin

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Malleck <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: den 21 april 2000 13:53
Subject: slaying the dragon


>Two quick questions.
>Does anyone know how I can get my hands on a copy of Bill White's _Slaying
>the Dragon_ relatively quickly?  I ordered it last year from Chapters.ca (a
>Canadian online bookseller) but it never arrived.  Now I find that the
>status of it at Chapters and at Amazon is ... it's gonna take a while.
>(Ironically, I went the internet route because it's generally faster)
>
>Second (related) question: An undergraduate friend of mine is writing a
>final term paper on addiction, and her supervisor asked her to get into
>definitions of addiction (social and scientific)  I know that White's book
>covers that, if the paper that he presented in Philadelphia in 1998 is any
>indication.  I've dug up a few other relevant papers for my friend.  If
>anyone has any suggestions for her, please let me know.
>
>Thanks.
>
>Dan M.
>=============================================================
>Dan Malleck, Ph.D.
>Department of Community Health Sciences
>Brock University
>St. Catharines, Ontario
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>Man occasionally stumbles on the truth, but then just picks himself up
>and hurries on.
>                --anon