Addictions
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From  NEW! NineFrom: Holden After & Before |
Tara McGuire | 15 | 2022 | $1.50 Add | |
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From NEW! NineteenFrom: Holden After & Before |
Tara McGuire | 15 | 2022 | $1.50 Add | |
 NEW! On OpiumPain, Pleasure, and Other Matters of Substance |
A groundbreaking meditation on pain, painkillers, and dependence from a prescription opioid user. Her writing has been described as "measured," "sensuous," and … | 364 | View | ||
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From NEW! OneFrom: Holden After & Before |
Tara McGuire | 3 | 2022 | $0.30 Add | |
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From  One of the Good Ones |
This chapter profiles a woman who struggled with drugs and alcohol, and now suffers from PTSD. Now in recovery, she has left sex work behind and receives support from the Blue Door Program. | Kerri Cull | 8 | 2021 | $0.80 Add |
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From  Opening DayFrom: Fighting For Space |
This heartwarming chapter outlines the opening day of Insite. Vacouver was now home to one-of-a-kind facility in North American continent whose sole purpose was harm reduction and better living … | Travis Lupick | 23 | 2017 | $0.46 Add |
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From NEW! Opium EaterThe New Confessions From: On Opium |
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 |
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From Out of Harm’s WayFrom: Fighting For Space |
This chapter highlights the first ever conference (Out of Harm’s Way) held in Vancouver for harm reduction. The primary thrust was providing stable housing options, educating general public … | Travis Lupick | 27 | 2017 | $0.54 Add |
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From Personal Best |
This interview features a woman who started sex work through camming, then moved on to stripping. She then began working in an adult massage parlour. She receives a lot of support from her … | Kerri Cull | 8 | 2021 | $0.80 Add |
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From Prescription HeroinFrom: Fighting For Space |
The Downtown Eastside had accomplished a lot as a community. In 2004, Dr. Martin Schechter had secured funding to launch a heroin-maintenance program out of a small clinic in the Downtown … | Travis Lupick | 29 | 2017 | $0.58 Add |
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From NEW! PrologueFrom: On Opium |
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 |
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From  NEW! PrologueThe Fight of My Life |
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 |
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From Protests across CanadaFrom: Fighting For Space |
Even though Insite became operational, the activists knew they were on borrowed time as the continuity of this project was in the tenuous hands of the changing government. Keeping this in mind, … | Travis Lupick | 32 | 2017 | $0.96 Add |
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From Rat ParkFrom: Fighting For Space |
This chapter highlights the research done by experimental psychologists since the 1960s in the addiction studies. Taking Skinner’s Box and juxta positioning it against the Rat Park … | Travis Lupick | 23 | 2017 | $0.46 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 … | Karen Hoeft | 16 | $1.60 Add | |
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From Sacramento, CaliforniaFrom: Fighting For Space |
This chapter throws light on “Othersite”, a supervised injection site, operating in Sacramento, California. | Travis Lupick | 18 | 2017 | $0.18 Add |
