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Awhile back, the Washington Post ran an excellent article by Maia Szalavitz on what exactly addiction is, and how we should go about treating the Britneys and Lindsays out there. To get to the article, click here. Below are excerpts: Today’s most widely accepted definition of addiction — used in psychiatry’s latest edition of its…