Addictions
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From ![]() A Chance EncounterFrom: Fighting For Space |
This chapter retraces the early years of activists Liz Evans and Mark Townsend. Also the inception of The Portland Hotel at Downtown Eastside in Vancouver, which later evolved into PHS Community … | Travis Lupick | 22 | 2017 | $0.44 Add |
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 |
From ![]() A New Model of CareFrom: Beyond Shelters |
Describes how the Mustard Seed in Calgary is building its own capacity to move homeless people into the community at scale. Examines the organization’s Wellness Centre as emblematic of its … | 17 | $1.70 Add | ||
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
From ![]() Advocacy CentreFrom: Beyond Shelters |
Proposes that, while continuing to deliver essential services to men and women in states of emergency and providing assistance in finding and keeping housing, homeless shelters are well placed to … | 19 | $1.90 Add | ||
From ![]() Agent of Social IntegrationFrom: Beyond Shelters |
Describes the history of Montreal’s Old Brewery Mission (an 125 year old shelter) and how it is working in concert with local psychiatric teams and housing agencies to create multiple and … | 19 | $1.90 Add | ||
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 |
![]() Beyond SheltersSolutions to Homelessness in Canada from the Front Lines |
This book offers essays by experienced shelter managers who address the future of the homeless shelter in Canada. This diverse collection includes contributions by leaders in the homelessness … | 256 | View | ||
From ![]() Boston, MassachusettsFrom: Fighting For Space |
Boston has a "Methadone Mile", a stretch in the city’s South End where needles litter the ground. Police tolerate the open drug use because to do otherwise would be futile. In … | Travis Lupick | 19 | 2017 | $0.19 Add |
From ![]() NEW! Chapter 1I Shook Up the World |
In the first chapter of the Cocaine segment of the memoir, Wood talks about his experience relapsing onto cocaine at a Montreal strip club. Wood talks about his past dreams, his first gig at Yuk … | Alex Wood | 15 | 2021 | $1.50 Add |
From ![]() NEW! Chapter 10Nail Biting |
Though not as dangerous as other addictions, Wood notes that nail biting was his longest-standing vice. An impulse to hurt himself came with it. Being in the hospital to support Nora during … | Alex Wood | 8 | 2021 | $0.80 Add |