Addictions

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
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
Fighting For Space How a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City's Struggle with Addiction Arsenal Pulp Press	North America is in the grips of a drug epidemic. While deaths across the continent soar, Travis Lupick’s Fighting for Space explains the concept of harm reduction as a crucial component of …	Travis Lupick	408	2017	View
NEW! Float Like a Butterfly, Drink Mint Tea How I Beat the Shit Out of All My Addictions Arsenal Pulp Press	As an alcoholic, drug-addicted comedian with tendencies to over-indulge and under-achieve since he was a teenager, Alex Wood was on track for to achieve his greatest goals: to die young and …	Alex Wood	292	2021	View
NEW! Holden After & Before Love Letter for a Son Lost to Overdose Arsenal Pulp Press	With poignant honesty and a heart laid bare, Holden After and Before is a beautiful and moving elegy to a son lost to overdose. Holden After and Before is a moving meditation on grief in the same …	Tara McGuire	356	2022	View
NEW! On Opium Pain, Pleasure, and Other Matters of Substance Goose Lane Editions	A groundbreaking meditation on pain, painkillers, and dependence from a prescription opioid user. Her writing has been described as "measured," "sensuous," and …	Carlyn Zwarenstein	364	2021	View
From Introduction The Shelterscape in Canada From: Beyond Shelters View	Provides a short history of the homeless shelter sector’s development followed by a description of its current size, shape, and orientations in Canada. Analyzes how homeless shelters have …		14		$1.40 Add
From Introduction From: Fighting For Space View Arsenal Pulp Press	In America today, overdose deaths are the highest they have ever been. Heroin has reached the middle class and suburban America. At the same time, public opinion has turned against the war on …	Travis Lupick	18	2017	$0.18 Add
From NEW! One From: Holden After & Before View Arsenal Pulp Press		Tara McGuire	3	2022	$0.30 Add
From NEW! Prologue From: On Opium View Goose Lane Editions	The author describes feeling trapped since her body began to turn against her many years ago, when she first started to suffer the intense joint stiffness and accompanying pain that would turn …	Carlyn Zwarenstein	3	2021	$0.30 Add
From NEW! Prologue The Fight of My Life From: Float Like a Butterfly, Drink Mint Tea View Arsenal Pulp Press	Alex Wood introduces readers to his journey, his family, and notes that he’s been battling addiction since childhood. In three years, he quit 14 different addictions, each covered …	Alex Wood	8	2021	$0.80 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! Opium Eater The New Confessions From: On Opium View Goose Lane Editions	After years of being clawed by stiffness and pain the author describes clawing back the life pain took from her. She describes the effects of the opiates she takes for pain, the pain relief, and …	Carlyn Zwarenstein	64	2021	$6.40 Add
From Shelters and Housing First From: Beyond Shelters View	Describes how Dr. Sam Tsemberis ascertained through his work and research at the famed Bellevue Hospital that chronically homeless people could be stably housed with improved quality of life …		29		$2.90 Add
From Toledo, Ohio From: Fighting For Space View Arsenal Pulp Press	The city of Toledo, Ohio, wakes up to a growing ‘public health crisis’. In 2014, over a thousand people died of heroin-related overdoses in the state of Ohio. A disproportionate …	Travis Lupick	20	2017	$0.40 Add
From NEW! Two From: Holden After & Before View Arsenal Pulp Press		Tara McGuire	6	2022	$0.60 Add
From NEW! Chapter 2 Miley From: Float Like a Butterfly, Drink Mint Tea View Arsenal Pulp Press	After feeling like a "grown up" after the Just for Laughs gig, Wood describes how he was "a boy again within weeks." Addiction and debt begins to interfere with his gigs and …	Alex Wood	19	2021	$1.90 Add

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