Addictions

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From A Chance Encounter From: Fighting For Space View Arsenal Pulp Press	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 Union From: Fighting For Space View Arsenal Pulp Press	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 Care From: Beyond Shelters View	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 Parts Limits From: On Opium View Goose Lane Editions	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 Parts Vertigo From: On Opium View Goose Lane Editions	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 Parts Quake From: On Opium View Goose Lane Editions	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 Parts Monsters From: On Opium View Goose Lane Editions	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 Parts Dross From: On Opium View Goose Lane Editions	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 Parts Saturnalia From: On Opium View Goose Lane Editions	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 Centre From: Beyond Shelters View	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 Integration From: Beyond Shelters View	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 Alley From: Fighting For Space View Arsenal Pulp Press	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 Shelters Solutions 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, Massachusetts From: Fighting For Space View Arsenal Pulp Press	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 1 I Shook Up the World From: Float Like a Butterfly, Drink Mint Tea View Arsenal Pulp Press	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 10 Nail Biting From: Float Like a Butterfly, Drink Mint Tea View Arsenal Pulp Press	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