Family Support: Bargaining With Addiction – Relapse Indicators (6 of 6) – Cathy Patterson-Sterling, Director of Family Services for Sunshine Coast Health Center, shares the sixth and final part of her series on Relapse Indicators. …

 

"Risk Assessment" Cannot Solve Systemic Injustice of Prisons

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Even if the focus of pardons is confined to people incarcerated for nonviolent drug offenses, people with multiple convictions for drug use and sale also should be considered, because these coupled behaviors often suggest a cycle of addiction and relapse.
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The Missing Treatment Link – Viewing Addiction as Symptomatic of Disordered …

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It is also clear that when an addict fuses substance abuse with sexual activity, each behavior reinforces the other, creating over time a surefire “paired trigger” for relapse. Very often, people with this issue primarily abuse stimulant drugs like …
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Homeless in Vancouver: South Granville's security blanket

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Not only is he something of an overgrown boy scout, he's—get ready for it—a self-admitted recovered heroin addict himself—he says he's over two years clean, with one small relapse. So he knows firsthand what every drug addicted panhandler goes …
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