Addictions
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From  A Drug Dealer Finds ActivismFrom: Fighting For Space |
This chapter throws light on the life of Dean Wilson who was dubbed “Canada’s most famous junkie”. Wilson joined the burgeoning team at PHS and worked alongside Livingston and … | Travis Lupick | 22 | 2017 | $0.44 Add |
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From A Drug-Users UnionFrom: Fighting For Space |
This chapter throws light on the early years of struggle and the subsequent formation of Vancouver Area Network Drug Users (VANDU). | Travis Lupick | 30 | 2017 | $0.90 Add |
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From  NEW! A Tale of Instability in Seven PartsLimits From: On Opium |
The author describes her writing life in relation to the chronic pain and stiffness of her disease and how, no longer depressed, she has stretched her own limits with opiods, and asks if she can … | Carlyn Zwarenstein | 23 | 2021 | $2.30 Add |
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From NEW! A Tale of Instability in Seven PartsVertigo From: On Opium |
Through the metaphor and the physical condition of vertigo, the author describes a benign temporary condition of incapacitiating vertigo, an artist’s residency in Venice, and the experience … | Carlyn Zwarenstein | 13 | 2021 | $1.30 Add |
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From NEW! A Tale of Instability in Seven PartsQuake From: On Opium |
As the author describes the upending of her life: the losses of the past months and years: her love, her family, her body, her work, her income, her freedom—treasured friendships, even. she … | Carlyn Zwarenstein | 15 | 2021 | $1.50 Add |
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From NEW! A Tale of Instability in Seven PartsMonsters From: On Opium |
The author describes what suffering does to her body and mind and how the effort required to transcend it makes her feel like a monster. While her condition allows her to walk and run but not … | Carlyn Zwarenstein | 14 | 2021 | $1.40 Add |
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From NEW! A Tale of Instability in Seven PartsDross From: On Opium |
In this chapter, dross, the undesirable scum that rises to the top of molten metal and also the residue from previously smoked opium is applied as metaphor to junkies: the unwanted product of … | Carlyn Zwarenstein | 17 | 2021 | $1.70 Add |
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From NEW! A Tale of Instability in Seven PartsSaturnalia From: On Opium |
Through the description of a trip to Spain, the author explores facism and the relationship between governments and drug users, and other disposable groups of people. The author states that we … | Carlyn Zwarenstein | 17 | 2021 | $1.70 Add |
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From  Addiction, Withdrawal, Smoking Cessation, and Public Health Measures |
Chapter Seven includes the following topics: Addiction/Tobacco Use Disorder – Withdrawal/Smoking Cessation Measures – Public Health Measures | James G. Wigmore | 57 | 2023 | $5.70 Add |
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From  An Introduction to Nature for TherapyFrom: Nature-Based Therapy |
Promoting a dose of nature clarifies the minimum time exposure people should be outdoors and seeks to highlight the socioecological benefits this natural, accessible, and free health remedy can … | David Segal; Kathryn Rose; Nevin Harper | 21 | 2019 | $2.10 Add |
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From Back AlleyFrom: Fighting For Space |
By 1996, the fight for government-funded harm-reduction services was just beginning. Residents of the Downtown Eastside had to fight for a simple recognition of their existence. With overdose … | Travis Lupick | 32 | 2017 | $0.96 Add |
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From  Back to BiologyPeigenetics and Vestibular Regulation From: i-Minds, 2nd edition |
Epigenetics simply means is how our individual genetics mix with all the potential influences in our individual environment. As we are increasingly learning, epigenetics are not only important, … | Mari K Swingle | 16 | 2019 | $1.60 Add |
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From Benefactors of ChangeFrom: i-Minds, 2nd edition |
Who benefits from the propagation and consumption of sextech and pornography? And who loses? The industries involved, as too all spinoffs of depersonalized touch (such as massage parlors, … | Mari K Swingle | 9 | 2019 | $0.90 Add |
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From Beyond IllusionsSpatial Planning, Arbitrary Learning, and Geolocation Skills From: i-Minds, 2nd edition |
Excessive screen usage (gaming and beyond) is highly related, if not correlated, with the development of anxiety, depression, and ailments on the obsessive-compulsive spectrum. So here I present … | Mari K Swingle | 20 | 2019 | $2.00 Add |
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From Boxed InAnxiety in the Masses From: i-Minds, 2nd edition |
Anxiety and its little buddy stress are on the rise in adults and, most troubling, increasingly also in children, adolescents, and youth. We are all now consistently revving at much, much higher … | Mari K Swingle | 17 | 2019 | $1.70 Add |
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From Breaking the TranceFrom: i-Minds, 2nd edition |
Media feeds were no longer resembling information distribution (fun or otherwise) they were starting to sound a lot like propaganda. Everything was now far too sweet to taste like truth and now … | Mari K Swingle | 16 | 2019 | $1.60 Add |
