Social Work
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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 |
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From ![]() NEW! Chapter 17Sugar |
Wood notes how difficult it is to quit sugar, especially with its ubiquity in everyday life and the general lack of support when accomplishing one’s goal. Changing one’s habits was … | Alex Wood | 6 | 2021 | $0.60 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Chapter 18Social Media |
Wood compares two equations: the number of hours on the Apollo mission over eleven years and the number of combined hours humanity spent on social media in 2019. Quitting social media isn’t … | Alex Wood | 14 | 2021 | $1.40 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Chapter 19Smartphone |
Wood details many of the problems linked to cellphones, though specifically smartphones. Health afflictions, mental health, relationships, car crashes, as well as other unsettling statisitics. As … | Alex Wood | 16 | 2021 | $1.60 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Chapter 2Miley |
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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From ![]() NEW! Chapter 3Withdrawal |
Beginning the Alcohol segment in the throes of withdrawal, Wood takes readers through his transition to heavy drinking and the health issues he’s been encountering. He describes his … | Alex Wood | 20 | 2021 | $2.00 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Chapter 4Playing the Tape Out |
After losing his wallet during a trip, Wood almost falls back into the alcohol spiral. "A test of resolve." However, following an endoscopy, Wood learns he can add stomach ulcers to a … | Alex Wood | 13 | 2021 | $1.30 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Youth HomelessnessHow to Prevent It |
in this chapter author Cécile Arbaud looks at the many factors that lead to youth becoming homeless. Youth in care, youth experiencing mental health crises and their complex factors provide … | Cécile Arbaud | 17 | 2024 | $1.70 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Chapter 5Two Fighters |
Wood begins the chapter discussing his friendship with Moaiad, a past roommate. His mother suggests tea when Wood is told the quit coffee, beginning his connection with peppermint tea. Wood … | Alex Wood | 13 | 2021 | $1.30 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Preventing Homelessness among People with Mental Illness |
Chapter 5 tackles mental illness as it relates to homelessness. Examining the complex ways in which individuals with mental illness fall into homelessness and barriers that nonlinear or rational … | Eric Latimer | 113 | 2024 | $11.30 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Chapter 6Wish You Were Here |
Wood’s career trajectory begins to take stronger shape. However, two weeks after a farewell bash thrown in Uncle Noel’s honour, Wood relapses. Though staying strong for his family … | Alex Wood | 5 | 2021 | $0.50 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Chapter 6: Urbanization and Immigration, 1890-1929 |
This chapter looks at urban growth between 1901 and 1931, during which immigrant workers experienced widening wage gaps, slum conditions, and extreme inequality in access to public-health. | Bryan D. Palmer | 7 | 2025 | $0.70 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Chapter 7April Fool |
Starting the segment "Alex Wood Quits Everything," Wood explains how he prepared for his podcast where he would quit the rest of his vices in one year. He describes his struggle through … | Alex Wood | 4 | 2021 | $0.40 Add |
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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 ![]() 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 ![]() Chapter Five: We Are Not Going AnywhereFrom: All Our Relations |
In this reading, Tanya Talaga discusses the epidemic of suicides among Indigenous youth in Canada. The reading includes personal recollections of the author, historical and political context and … | Tanya Talaga | 43 | 2018 | $5.16 Add |







