Mental Health
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| Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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 Fighting For SpaceHow a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City's Struggle with Addiction |
North America is in the grips of a drug epidemic. While deaths across the continent soar, Travis Lupick’s Fighting for Space explains the concept of harm reduction as a crucial component of … | Travis Lupick | 408 | 2017 | View |
 Mental Disorder and the Law 2/eA Primer for Legal and Mental Health Professionals |
Canada’s criminal courts have struggled to deal effectively with the increase in mentally disordered accused. In 2017, we mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the proclamation of Bill C-30, … | Hy Bloom; Richard D. Schneider | 425 | 2017 | View |
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From Basic Psychiatric Terms and Concepts |
This chapter introduces basic terms and concepts within the discipline of psychiatry as they arise in the course of dealing with mentally disordered accused. | Hy Bloom; Richard D. Schneider | 44 | 2017 | $4.40 Add |
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From IntroductionFrom: Fighting For Space |
In America today, overdose deaths are the highest they have ever been. Heroin has reached the middle class and suburban America. At the same time, public opinion has turned against the war on … | Travis Lupick | 18 | 2017 | $0.18 Add |
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From Psychiatric Consultation and Evidence |
This chapter provides an introduction to fundamentals of psychiatrict consultation and evidence, including the role of the psychiatric consultant, the psychiatrist-lawyer relationship, and uses … | Hy Bloom; Richard D. Schneider | 27 | 2017 | $2.70 Add |
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From Toledo, OhioFrom: Fighting For Space |
The city of Toledo, Ohio, wakes up to a growing ‘public health crisis’. In 2014, over a thousand people died of heroin-related overdoses in the state of Ohio. A disproportionate … | Travis Lupick | 20 | 2017 | $0.40 Add |
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From  Children’s Rights and Health LawThe “Mature Minor” Rule Revisited From: Children and the Law |
Review of the “mature minor” rule from the Supreme Court of Canada decision of A.C. v. Manitoba (Director of Child and Family Services). | Gerald B. Robertson | 17 | 2011 | $1.70 Add |
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From Fitness to Stand Trial |
This chapter offers an introduction and brief history of the fitness to stand trial rules. | Hy Bloom; Richard D. Schneider | 77 | 2017 | $7.70 Add |
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From Hundred Block RockFrom: Fighting For Space |
In the 1990s and early 2000s, Bud Osborn was part of a grassroots group of addicts who transformed how the City of Vancouver treats people addicted to drugs. He helped pioneer North … | Travis Lupick | 25 | 2017 | $0.50 Add |
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From A Chance EncounterFrom: Fighting For Space |
This chapter retraces the early years of activists Liz Evans and Mark Townsend. Also the inception of The Portland Hotel at Downtown Eastside in Vancouver, which later evolved into PHS Community … | Travis Lupick | 22 | 2017 | $0.44 Add |
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From Pre-Trial Issues |
This chapter looks at pre-trial issues, including bail and psychiatric assessments. | Hy Bloom; Richard D. Schneider | 10 | 2017 | $1.00 Add |
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From Criminal ResponsibilityPart I |
This chapter examines the not criminally responsible defence on account of a mental disorder, specifically forms of automatism. | Hy Bloom; Richard D. Schneider | 39 | 2017 | $3.90 Add |
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From Hotel of Last ResortFrom: Fighting For Space |
In 1993, Liz Evans and Mark Townsend were trying to secure housing for some of the neighbourhood’s most difficult tenants. A community ravaged by drug abuse and disease that every level of … | Travis Lupick | 34 | 2017 | $1.02 Add |
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From Criminal ResponsibilityPart II |
This chapter examines the not criminally responsible defence on account of a mental disorder, specifically forms of intoxication, irresistible impulse, provocation, and self-defence. | Hy Bloom; Richard D. Schneider | 17 | 2017 | $1.70 Add |
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From Rat ParkFrom: Fighting For Space |
This chapter highlights the research done by experimental psychologists since the 1960s in the addiction studies. Taking Skinner’s Box and juxta positioning it against the Rat Park … | Travis Lupick | 23 | 2017 | $0.46 Add |
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From Growing Up RadicalFrom: Fighting For Space |
This chapter introduces Ann Livingston. A single mother on welfare, Livingston moved to the Downtown Eastside with her three boys in 1993, and was moved to act by the sight of people shooting up … | Travis Lupick | 20 | 2017 | $0.40 Add |
