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Andrea Lyman, MD
Gouverneur Diagnostic and Treatment Center New York, NY

JAMA. 1996;276(16):1299.

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To the Editor.

—In the Addiction Medicine section of the Contempo issue,¹I was surprised to find no mention of what is surely major news in the drug dependence field: the recent availability of nonprescription nicotine replacement agents. Nicotine replacement has been found to be an important modality in treating dependence on nicotine,² the drug responsible for the overwhelming preponderance of mortality from drug use. Addiction specialists are increasingly recognizing the benefit of including nicotine addiction treatment in their work,³ but this was not reflected in the article by Drs Wesson and Ling. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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