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Commentary: Craving Diagnostic Validity in DSM-5 Substance Use Disorders

Mace Beckson and Douglas Tucker
Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online December 2014, 42 (4) 453-458;
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Dr. Beckson is Health Sciences Clinical Professor, UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, and Staff Psychiatrist, Greater Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, Los Angeles, CA. Dr. Tucker is Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Program in Psychiatry and Law, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA.
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Dr. Beckson is Health Sciences Clinical Professor, UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, and Staff Psychiatrist, Greater Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, Los Angeles, CA. Dr. Tucker is Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Program in Psychiatry and Law, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA.
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vol. 42 no. 4 453-458
PubMed 
25492071

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1093-6793
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  • Published online December 9, 2014.

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  1. Mace Beckson, MD and
  2. Douglas Tucker, MD
  1. Dr. Beckson is Health Sciences Clinical Professor, UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, and Staff Psychiatrist, Greater Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, Los Angeles, CA. Dr. Tucker is Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Program in Psychiatry and Law, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA.
  1. Address correspondence to: Douglas Tucker, MD, 2930 Domingo Avenue No. 306, Berkeley CA 94705. E-mail: dtuckermd{at}gmail.com.

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