Addictions
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From  NEW! Chapter 8Weed |
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" … | Alex Wood | 9 | 2021 | $0.90 Add |
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From  Miami, FloridaFrom: Fighting For Space |
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 … | Travis Lupick | 19 | 2017 | $0.19 Add |
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From  NEW! NineFrom: Holden After & Before |
- | Tara McGuire | 15 | 2022 | $1.50 Add |
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From  The Community HubFrom: Beyond Shelters |
Cora Gajari, Executive Director of Carmichael Outreach Inc. in Regina, Saskatchewan, draws on her own experience as an Indigenous woman who has faced violence and marginalization, discusses the … | 16 | $1.60 Add | ||
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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 | ||
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From NEW! Chapter 9Caffeine |
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. … | Alex Wood | 27 | 2021 | $2.70 Add |
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From NEW! TenFrom: Holden After & Before |
- | Tara McGuire | 11 | 2022 | $1.10 Add |
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From The Killing FieldsFrom: Fighting For Space |
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 … | Travis Lupick | 28 | 2017 | $0.56 Add |
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From  NEW! The Quarantine of the Opium Eater, Notes on Getting WellDependence From: On Opium |
This chapter describes the author’s dependance on the (taken as prescribed) opiods, and how these allow her to work and enjoy life in three chunks of five hours throughout the day. The … | Carlyn Zwarenstein | 36 | 2021 | $3.60 Add |
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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 |
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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 |
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From NEW! ElevenFrom: Holden After & Before |
- | Tara McGuire | 8 | 2022 | $0.80 Add |
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From Restoring CommunityFrom: Beyond Shelters |
Based on over 30 years of work with the Salvation Army across Canada, Karen Hoeft describes how it is the loss of community that creates homelessness at the outset thus restoring community must … | 16 | $1.60 Add | ||
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From NEW! The Quarantine of the Opium Eater, Notes on Getting WellIndependence From: On Opium |
The author explores her relationship with her chronic pain and the tension between independence and dependence on prescription opiods, at first rationing relief. She parses the moral … | Carlyn Zwarenstein | 32 | 2021 | $3.20 Add |
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From  What I’ve Become |
In this chapter, the author interviews a man who has bought sex for two decades. He can’t live without the thrill of his clandestine “other” life, and the thrill caused by his … | Kerri Cull | 8 | 2021 | $0.80 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 11Cigarettes |
Wood notes that some of his "lowest moments of addiction" were related to cigarettes, certain he wouldn’t be able to escape them. He describes the withdrawal as more constant than … | Alex Wood | 17 | 2021 | $1.70 Add |
