Addictions

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Chapter 6

Wish You Were Here

From: Float Like a Butterfly, Drink Mint Tea

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Wood’s career trajectory begins to take stronger shape. However, two weeks after a farewell bash thrown in Uncle Noel’s honour, Wood relapses. Though staying strong for his family … 5 $0.50 Add
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Growing Up Radical

From: Fighting For Space

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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 … 20 $0.40 Add
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Nature as Co-therapist

From: Nature-Based Therapy

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Drawing on the work of many talented and creative nature connection facilitators, philosophers, and therapists, this chapter aims to illuminate some of the processes of doing nature-based … ; ; 43 $4.30 Add
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A Tale of Instability in Seven Parts

Dross

From: On Opium

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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 … 17 $1.70 Add
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Back Alley

From: Fighting For Space

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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 … 32 $0.96 Add
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Chapter 7

April Fool

From: Float Like a Butterfly, Drink Mint Tea

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Starting the segment "Alex Wood Quits Everything," Wood explains how he prepared for his podcast where he would quit the rest of his vices in one year. He describes his struggle through … 4 $0.40 Add
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From Digital Natives to i-Kids

From: i-Minds, 2nd edition

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In this chapter, I am going to speak of a critical dynamic that i-media has with play, learning, and creativity. This is a dynamic that concerns mostly digital natives, and the now very young: … 12 $1.20 Add
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Nature -based Therapy for Families

From: Nature-Based Therapy

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We invite you to challenge your own fears and uncertainties of breaking with conventional office-based practices and to discover the myriad opportunities for enhancing family well-being outside … ; ; 20 $2.00 Add
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A Tale of Instability in Seven Parts

Saturnalia

From: On Opium

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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 … 17 $1.70 Add
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Chapter 8

Weed

From: Float Like a Butterfly, Drink Mint Tea

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Wood discusses his journey with weed, and the dangerous situations he got into to acquire it. He talks about his interview with his recovery friend Marito. "The mental hold of weed" … 9 $0.90 Add
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Miami, Florida

From: Fighting For Space

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In 2015, Manatee County saw heroin kill more people than any other jurisdiction in Florida, a state that’s been hit particularly hard by the drug’s arrival to Middle American. Heroin … 19 $0.19 Add
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Multi-family Nature-based Therapy

From: Nature-Based Therapy

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This approach removes both clinician and client from the power dynamics and stigma of entering a social services office building for treatment and into a space where we can all be witnessed for … ; ; 17 $1.70 Add
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The Story of Alpha

From: i-Minds, 2nd edition

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In this chapter, I will discuss my discovery of the signature for modern excess: a form of brain deregulation purely associated with excessive use of i-media. 16 $1.60 Add
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Chapter 9

Caffeine

From: Float Like a Butterfly, Drink Mint Tea

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Next is Wood’s journey with coffee, or more importantly, caffeine. Being "coffee-sick" was an ongoing cycle, and with news of his ulcers, Wood tries to sever ties with caffeine. … 27 $2.70 Add
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Group Applications in Nature-based Therapy

From: Nature-Based Therapy

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The therapeutic factors of instillation of hope, universality, imparting information, altruism, development of socializing techniques, imitative behavior, group cohesiveness, and existential … ; ; 17 $1.70 Add
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The Killing Fields

From: Fighting For Space

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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