Mental Health
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From ![]() Protests across CanadaFrom: Fighting For Space |
Even though Insite became operational, the activists knew they were on borrowed time as the continuity of this project was in the tenuous hands of the changing government. Keeping this in mind, … | Travis Lupick | 32 | 2017 | $0.96 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 ![]() Raleigh, North CarolinaFrom: Fighting For Space |
This chapter throws light on the small town of Raleigh, North Carolina, where activists Robert Childs, Minister Michelle Mathis, Steve Daniels and many others worked around the law and came up … | Travis Lupick | 18 | 2017 | $0.18 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 ![]() Responding to Mental Illness |
James Pardy | 28 | 2019 | $2.80 Add | |
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From ![]() Rewiring the Brain for AddictionFrom: Fighting For Space |
Marc Lewis, the author of The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction is Not a Disease, visits Downtown Eastside and lays out an argument for addiction as a learned habit. Lewis argues that the choice … | Travis Lupick | 19 | 2017 | $0.19 Add |
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From ![]() Sentencing |
This chapter looks at sentencing in cases involving mentally disordered accused. | Hy Bloom; Richard D. Schneider | 8 | 2017 | $0.80 Add |
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From ![]() Sex Offenders and the Paraphilias |
This chapter is an overview of paraphilic disorders and paraphilias in the legal domain. | Hy Bloom; Richard D. Schneider | 34 | 2017 | $3.40 Add |
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From ![]() Stress in Conflict and Crisis Situations |
James Pardy | 26 | 2019 | $2.60 Add | |
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From ![]() Suicide |
James Pardy | 35 | 2019 | $3.50 Add | |
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From ![]() Taking the Fight to City HallFrom: Fighting For Space |
The trailblazing activists continued their work in Downtown Eastside. This chapter highlights the demonstration, led by Dean Wilson in 2000, where VANDU confronted Mayor Philip Owen at the City … | Travis Lupick | 31 | 2017 | $0.93 Add |
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From ![]() “The Assassination”From: Fighting For Space |
Citing financial mismanagement, BCs provincial government removed Townsend, Evans, and the entire leadership of the Portland Hotel Society. The organization was stripped of its autonomy, and the … | Travis Lupick | 25 | 2017 | $0.50 Add |
![]() The Death of a ButterflyMental Health Court Diaries |
Canada has seen a dramatic increase in the numbers of mentally ill people entering the criminal justice system. In Canada and the United States, mental health courts were introduced in the late … | Richard D. Schneider | 252 | 2019 | View |
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From ![]() The Hair SalonFrom: Fighting For Space |
Despite the non-support of the sitting mayor of Vancouver, VANDU and PHS members persevered with a single-mindedness – to open a supervised injection site for the drug users of Downtown … | Travis Lupick | 28 | 2017 | $0.56 Add |
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From ![]() The Killing FieldsFrom: Fighting For Space |
By the late 1990s, drug overdoses, HIV/AIDS, and an outbreak of hepatitis C were collectively killing more than one person in the Downtown Eastside every single day. Desperate for attention from … | Travis Lupick | 28 | 2017 | $0.56 Add |
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From ![]() The Vancouver AgreementFrom: Fighting For Space |
This chapter highlights the formation Vancouver Caucus, comprising of Mayor Philip Owen, Jenny Kwan and Dr Hedy Fry, and the subsequent signing of the Vancouver Agreement. The agreement about a … | Travis Lupick | 27 | 2017 | $0.54 Add |







