Addictions
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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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 |
From SocializationChild's Play From: i-Minds, 2nd edition |
In this chapter, I will start a discussion on how, in the name of discipline, safety, and humaneness, i-tech has found yet another niche. How, for better or for worse, i-tech is now the principal … | Mari K Swingle | 21 | 2019 | $2.10 Add |
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 |
From NEW! Chapter 15Credit Cards |
Wood explains how credit cards were more a vessel to acquiring other vices than being a vice. Setting boundaries on how credit cards would be used was the fight at hand. | Alex Wood | 4 | 2021 | $0.40 Add |
From The Good, the Bad, and the NeutralFrom: i-Minds, 2nd edition |
In this chapter and those following, I will continue to build on these arguments but also build further upon the argument of the importance of people: that i-tech should not replace human … | Mari K Swingle | 20 | 2019 | $2.00 Add |
From NEW! Chapter 16Gossip |
Communcation and sharing stories is natural for humans, Wood notes, before explaining how gossip can have similarities to the highs and lows of other addictions. Though tempted early on, Wood … | Alex Wood | 8 | 2021 | $0.80 Add |
From Of Games and GamingFrom: i-Minds, 2nd edition |
I am going to go a bit deeper exploring the specifics of the supposed benefits of gaming as they relate to learning. Within this I’m going to put a microscope over some of the gaming … | Mari K Swingle | 17 | 2019 | $1.70 Add |
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 |
From Building AlliesFrom: Fighting For Space |
After repeatedly hitting a wall when it came to better government support for harm reduction, the Downtown Eastside activists strategically started seeking allies. The residents of the affluent … | Travis Lupick | 28 | 2017 | $0.56 Add |
From NEW! Chapter 17Sugar |
Wood notes how difficult it is to quit sugar, especially with its ubiquity in everyday life and the general lack of support when accomplishing one’s goal. Changing one’s habits was … | Alex Wood | 6 | 2021 | $0.60 Add |
From The Good, the Bad, and the UglyEsports and the Business of Gaming From: i-Minds, 2nd edition |
We need more fun in our lives. But, when gaming morphs into obsession, replaces and supersedes multiple forms of physical and mental leisure activity, adversely starts to affect physical health, … | Mari K Swingle | 16 | 2019 | $1.60 Add |
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 |
From NEW! Chapter 18Social Media |
Wood compares two equations: the number of hours on the Apollo mission over eleven years and the number of combined hours humanity spent on social media in 2019. Quitting social media isn’t … | Alex Wood | 14 | 2021 | $1.40 Add |
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 |
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 |
From NEW! Chapter 19Smartphone |
Wood details many of the problems linked to cellphones, though specifically smartphones. Health afflictions, mental health, relationships, car crashes, as well as other unsettling statisitics. As … | Alex Wood | 16 | 2021 | $1.60 Add |