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Harm Reduction Journal BioMedCentral Book review Open Access Review of The Globalisation Of Addiction: A Study In Poverty Of The Spirit by Bruce K. Alexander Harry G Levine Address: Sociology Department, Queens College, City University of New York, USA Email: Harry G Levine - hglevine@Q Published: 23 June 2009 Received: 7 May 2009 Accepted: 23 June 2009 Harm Reduction Journal 2009, 6:12 doi:10.1186/1477-7517-6-12 This article is available from: /content/6/1/12 ? 2009 Levine; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Book review of The Globalisation Of Addiction: A Study In Poverty Of The Spirit by Bruce K. Alexander Book details The Globalisation of Addictions argument often makes sur- prising turns and explorations – each worth following for its information about the history of Western culture and about the contemporary world. Part of what is disorient- ing is the books unusual combination of conventional, North American understandings – including its use of the word addiction – and its utterly unconventional and thoroughgoing expansion of such understandings across categories, cultures, and historical epochs. The books major and secondary arguments are often simultaneously quite familiar and remarkably strange. Alexander Bruce K: The Globalisation Of Addiction: A Study In Poverty Of The Spirit. Oxford University Press; 2008. ISBN 978-0-19-923012-9 Review In a 1970s New Yorker cartoon, a writer at a small desk pecks away on a typewriter. In his thought cloud behind him, fifteen people cheer enthusiastically and say: A bril- liant achievement ... Unflinching ... Writing at its most illumi- nating ... Explosive ... Long overdue ... True vision ... Plain speec