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| Born | Bruce K. Alexander 20 December 1939 |
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Bruce K. Alexander (born 20 December 1939)[1] is a psychologist and professor emeritus from Vancouver, BC, Canada.[1] He has taught and conducted research on the psychology of addiction at Simon Fraser University since 1970.[2] He retired from active teaching in 2005. Alexander and SFU colleagues conducted a series of experiments into drug addiction known as the Rat Park experiments. He has written two books about addiction: Peaceful Measures: Canada's Way Out of the War on Drugs (1990)[3] and The Globalization of Addiction: A Study in Poverty of the Spirit (2008).[4]
- ^ a b Alexander, Bruce. "Curriculum Vitae " Archived June 7, 2013, at the Wayback Machine, Retrieved on 12 May 2013.
- ^ http://www.psyc.sfu.ca/people/index.php?topic=finf&id=74[full citation needed]
- ^ Alexander, B.K. (1990) Peaceful Measures: Canada's Way Out of the War on Drugs. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 0-8020-6753-0[page needed]
- ^ Alexander, B.K. (2008). The Globalization of Addiction: A study in poverty of the spirit. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-958871-6[page needed]