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Research Articles

Ben Cousins and the ‘double life’: exploring citizenship and the voluntarity/compulsivity binary through the experiences of a ‘drug addicted’ elite athlete

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Pages 439-452 | Received 21 Oct 2009, Accepted 25 Jan 2010, Published online: 20 Nov 2010

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