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Archive Home > 2012 > September > 29 > Edwards helped establish addiction as medical problem

Edwards helped establish addiction as medical problem

By Benedict Carey / The Bulletin
September 29, 2012

Dr. Griffith Edwards, a psychiatrist who helped establish addiction medicine as a science, formulating definitions of drug and alcohol dependence that are used worldwide to diagnose and treat substance abuse, died Sept. 13 in a hospice near his home in Greenwich, England. He was 83.

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