Addictions
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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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 |
From NEW! The Quarantine of the Opium Eater, Notes on Getting WellInterdependence From: On Opium |
This chapter explores community, including various methods of harm reduction and a conference in Portugal, where all drugs have been decriminalized. The author describes online support systems … | Carlyn Zwarenstein | 58 | 2021 | $5.80 Add |
From NEW! TwelveFrom: Holden After & Before |
- | Tara McGuire | 11 | 2022 | $1.10 Add |
From NEW! Chapter 12Red Meat |
Eating red meat wasn’t out of his control. However, Wood didn’t want to be a part of the climate problems connected to red meat. Nora is the next guest on his podcast. She remarks … | Alex Wood | 4 | 2021 | $0.40 Add |
From From Housing to Harm ReductionFrom: Fighting For Space |
This chapter highlights the synergy between VANDU and PHS as they grappled to establish basic facilities for the homeless population in Vancouver. Caught in the sparring between the health board … | Travis Lupick | 26 | 2017 | $0.52 Add |
From NEW! ThirteenFrom: Holden After & Before |
- | Tara McGuire | 14 | 2022 | $1.40 Add |
From NEW! Chapter 13Dairy |
Wood cleverly begins the chapter by using an "unhealthy alcohol use" questionnaire and makes dairy the subject instead. The results are telling. Wood notes that overeating was similar … | Alex Wood | 10 | 2021 | $1.00 Add |
From ConclusionThe Way Forward for Homeless Shelters in Canada From: Beyond Shelters |
Analyzes how the diversity of the shelterscape in Canada offers homeless people the right door into the services and programs they may need to exit homelessness in the shortest time possible. … | 13 | $1.30 Add | ||
From NEW! FourteenFrom: Holden After & Before |
- | Tara McGuire | 11 | 2022 | $1.10 Add |
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 |
From NEW! Chapter 14Porn |
Wood describes his inroduction to porn and his strange relationship with it. Quitting porn wasn’t the biggest struggle of the month, however. Wood’s health was still suffering, and … | Alex Wood | 9 | 2021 | $0.90 Add |
From NEW! FifteenFrom: Holden After & Before |
- | Tara McGuire | 5 | 2022 | $0.50 Add |
From The Devil Gets into Me |
This interview profiles a woman who engaged in street-based sex work for about 7 years. She felt that drug use was the main reason women engaged in that kind of sex work. | Kerri Cull | 4 | 2021 | $0.40 Add |
From NEW! Chapter 15Credit Cards |
Wood explains how credit cards were more a vessel to acquiring other vices than being a vice. Setting boundaries on how credit cards would be used was the fight at hand. | Alex Wood | 4 | 2021 | $0.40 Add |
From NEW! SixteenFrom: Holden After & Before |
- | Tara McGuire | 11 | 2022 | $1.10 Add |
From NEW! Chapter 16Gossip |
Communcation and sharing stories is natural for humans, Wood notes, before explaining how gossip can have similarities to the highs and lows of other addictions. Though tempted early on, Wood … | Alex Wood | 8 | 2021 | $0.80 Add |