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  1. Addiction and Control
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Prisons are very profitable. There are private prisons nowadays. The people that own them have, as their mission, first and foremost, the making of money. They need as many people as possible in prison to maximize their profits. They also need to spend as little as possible on the inmates and staff. Thus, America has over 2.3 million people incarcerated; more than any other country.
  2. Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do
    The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in a Free Society

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
  3. Bellwood Health Services Inc.
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  4. Betrayal of Trust
    The Collapse of Global Public Health

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
    The story of recent failings of public health systems across the globe.
  5. Brock University
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  6. Canadian Association of Psychoanalytic Child Therapists (CAPCT)
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  7. Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  8. Canadian Psychiatric Association
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  9. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 4 - October 1980 - Health/Sante

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1980
  10. Connexions Digest
    Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1989
  11. Connexions Digest
    Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1990
  12. Connexions Digest
    Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1992
  13. Drug use, the labour market and class conflict
    Resource Type: Article
    A social history and analysis of drug use and its relationship with class struggle.
  14. The Drugs Myth
    Why the Drug Wars Must Stop

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    Coleman presents medical evidence that the most dangerous and life-threatening drugs are legal, while the banned drugs are comparatively harmless.
  15. Genocide by Prescription: The "Natural History" of the Declining White Working Class in America
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    The white working class in the US has been decimated through an epidemic of 'premature deaths' -- a bland term to cover-up the drop in life expectancy in this historically important demographic. This is the first time in the country's 'peacetime' history that its traditional core productive sector has experienced such a dramatic demographic decline -- and the epicenter is in the small towns and rural communities of the United States.
  16. In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2008
    Gabor Mate looks at the epidemic of addictions in our society, tells us why we are so prone to them, and outlines what he thinks is needed to liberate ourselves from their hold on our emotions and behaviours.
  17. My Freedom, Your Freedom
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2012
    Knowing nothing but drugs and violence since childhood, Kuebra and Salema have spent their adult years in and out of a Berlin prison, their experiences calling into question the effectiveness of incarceration.
  18. Ontario Federation of Community Mental Health and Addiction Programs
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  19. Debbie Papadakis, BCH, CI
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  20. Pharmageddon: how the US got hooked on prescription drugs
    White House declares prescription drug abuse in US 'alarming' as thousands flock to Florida – the home of oxycodone pill mills

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    An investigation into the underground trade of oxycodone, a widely abused prescription drug. Ninety-eight percent of prescriptions in the United States come from southern Florida, where doctors at "pill-mills" can see up to one hundred patients in a sitting.
  21. Dorothy Ratusny, M.A., (C). OACCPP., Psychotherapist & Author of <i>The Purpose of Love</i>
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  22. Rochdale
    The Runaway Collage

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
    Toronto's Rochdale College began as an experiment in living and learning, and ended as a symbpl of the flower-child Sixties, a financial and social controversy. Sharpe tells the story of the college's seven-year rise and fall.
  23. The Salvation Army Territorial Headquarters Canada and Bermuda
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  24. Simon Fraser University
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  25. Sources welcomes Dorothy Ratusny
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Sources welcomes a new member, Dorothy Ratusny, M.A., (C). OACCPP., Psychotherapist & Author of The Purpose of Love.
  26. Understanding Addiction is the First Step Towards Recovery
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    The goal of National Addiction Awareness Week is to de-stigmatize addiction, promote the fact that addiction is a treatable health issue, and spread the message that recovery from substance abuse and other addictive behaviours is possible.
  27. The War at Home
    An Intimate Portrait of Canada's Poor

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999


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