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]> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> 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 >[log in to unmask] > >Man occasionally stumbles on the truth, but then just picks himself up >and hurries on. > --anon