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Are animal models of addiction useful?

Matt FieldInge Kersbergen
Published in: Addiction (Abingdon, England) (2019)
A case can be made that animal models of addiction have not served us well in understanding and treating addiction in humans. It is important to reconsider some widely held beliefs about the nature of addictive behaviour in humans that have arisen from the zeal to translate observations of laboratory animals.
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