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Considered from a psychoanalytic point of view there is no such thing as an expertise in addiction, but to pay special attention to addiction is important, because it is arguably a paradigmatic expression of the suffering of the modern subject and, moreover, it is a crucial problem for psychoanalysis. It is important to investigate the effect of the symptom and dual diagnosis from within a psychoanalytic framework for at least the following four reasons: