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The Future is an Unlocked Door

The Future is an Unlocked Door

From: About Face

On Narcotics. The essays in the first section of the book discuss substance abuse. These readings include personal accounts of struggles with addiction in all its forms. The authors in these … 9 $0.90 Add
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The Future of Work

The Future of Work

From: Basic Income For Canadians

This chapter looks at our relationship with work as individuals and as a society and how basic income will fundamentally change that relationship. 16 $1.60 Add
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The Hair Salon

The Hair Salon

From: 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 … 28 $0.56 Add
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The Integrity Model

The Integrity Model

To Be or Not To Be as A Function of Our Values

From: About Face

The readings in the fourth section of the book covers the contemporary discourse surrounding addiction in Canada, and outlines a variety of possible paths forward for combatting addiction. ; 9 $0.90 Add
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The Killing Fields

The Killing Fields

From: 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 … 28 $0.56 Add
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The Last Act;

The Last Act;

Losing Pat

From: Pilgrim Souls

Talks about the process of losing Pat as Dementia took more of a hold on her, Discusses the Barrier (the point of physically and emotionallty exhaustion for caregivers), 19 $1.90 Add
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The P earson Years, 1963–1968

The P earson Years, 1963–1968

From: Rivals for Power: Ottawa and the Provinces

Describes the development of the federation under Prime Minister Lester Pearson including the Quebec and Canada Pension Plans, the rise of separatism, Medicare, the constitution and foreign … 24 $2.40 Add
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The Pandemic as an Invitation to Change

The Pandemic as an Invitation to Change

From: Basic Income For Canadians

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The Policy Challenge

The Policy Challenge

From: Health and Wealth

Public policy proposals for Canada at the turn of the 21st century that would improve the overall levels of health of the population, and reduce illness and disease, by focusing on the social and … 36 $3.60 Add
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The Problem
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The Problem

From: Making a Home

In this chapter, Powley discusses the many young people with disabilities who are placed in aged care facilities and how this impacts their mental health and social needs. Powley discusses the … 28 $2.80 Add
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The Quarantine of the Opium Eater, Notes on Getting Well
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The Quarantine of the Opium Eater, Notes on Getting Well

Dependence

From: On Opium

This chapter describes the author’s dependance on the (taken as prescribed) opiods, and how these allow her to work and enjoy life in three chunks of five hours throughout the day. The … 36 $3.60 Add
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The Quarantine of the Opium Eater, Notes on Getting Well
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The Quarantine of the Opium Eater, Notes on Getting Well

Independence

From: On Opium

The author explores her relationship with her chronic pain and the tension between independence and dependence on prescription opiods, at first rationing relief. She parses the moral … 32 $3.20 Add
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The Quarantine of the Opium Eater, Notes on Getting Well
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The Quarantine of the Opium Eater, Notes on Getting Well

Interdependence

From: On Opium

This chapter explores community, including various methods of harm reduction and a conference in Portugal, where all drugs have been decriminalized. The author describes online support systems … 58 $5.80 Add
The Socialist Register 2022
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The Socialist Register 2022

New Polarizations, Old Contradictions: The Crisis of Centrism

The 58th annual volume of the Socialist Register takes up the challenge of exploring how the new polarizations relate to the contradictions that underlie them and how far ‘centrist’ … ; ; 352 View
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The Struggle — at Home and in the World — for Health Care as a Human Right

The Struggle — at Home and in the World — for Health Care as a Human Right

From: Medicare

discusses the need for social justice and equality in terms of public health and democratic socialism 13 $1.30 Add
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The Third Wave
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The Third Wave

It’s a Tsunami

From: Shadows and Light

Chapter Five examines the crushing reality of the third wave with more aggressive Covid-19 variants. Topics discussed include anti-vaccination protests, climbing hospitalizations in Alberta … 29 $2.90 Add