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  • Whiteout

    How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America

    by Helena Hansen, Jules Netherland, David Herzberg ...
    The first critical analysis of how Whiteness drove the opioid crisis.In the past two decades, media images of the surprisingly white “new face” of the US opioid crisis abounded. But why was the crisis so white? Some argued that skyrocketing overdoses were “deaths of despair” signaling deeper socioeconomic anguish in white communities. Whiteout makes the counterintuitive case that the opioid crisis ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Addicted to Christ

    Remaking Men in Puerto Rican Pentecostal Drug Ministries

    by Helena Hansen ...
    How are spiritual power and self-transformation cultivated in street ministries? In Addicted to Christ, Helena Hansen provides an in-depth analysis of Pentecostal ministries in Puerto Rico that were founded and run by self-identified “ex-addicts,” ministries that are also widespread in poor Black and Latino neighborhoods in the U.S. mainland. Richly ethnographic, the book harmoniously melds Hansen ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Structural Competency in Mental Health and Medicine

    A Case-Based Approach to Treating the Social Determinants of Health

    Edited by Helena Hansen, Jonathan M. Metzl ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This book documents the ways that clinical practitioners and trainees have used the “structural competency” framework to reduce inequalities in health. The essays describe on-the-ground ways that clinicians, educators, and activists craft structural interventions to enhance health outcomes, student learning, and community organizing around issues of social justice in health and healthcare. Each ... Read more

    $140.89 CAD

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  • San Fransicko

    Why Progressives Ruin Cities

    by Michael Shellenberger ...
    National bestselling author of APOCALYPSE NEVER skewers progressives for the mishandling of America’s faltering cities.Progressives claimed they knew how to solve the homelessness crisis, inequality, and crime. But in cities they control, from San Francisco to Seattle, progressives made those problems worse.Michael Shellenberger has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for thirty years. During that ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • Drug Use for Grown-Ups

    Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear

    by Dr. Carl L. Hart ...
    **“Hart’s argument that we need to drastically revise our current view of illegal drugs is both powerful and timely . . . when it comes to the legacy of this country’s war on drugs, we should all share his outrage.” —The New York Times Book ReviewFrom one of the world's foremost experts on the subject, a powerful argument that the greatest damage from drugs flows from their being illegal, and a ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Overdose

    Heartbreak and Hope in Canada's Opioid Crisis

    by Benjamin Perrin ...
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED for the 2021 BC Book Awards' George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in LiteratureSHORTLISTED for the BC and Yukon Book Prizes, for both the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize and Jim Deva Prize for Writing That ProvokesSHORTLISTED for the 2021 J. W. Dafoe Book PrizeSHORTLISTED for the 2020 Lane Anderson Award“Overdose is a necessary and searching investigation into a ... Read more

    Was $15.99 CAD Now $12.99 CAD

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  • The Urge

    Our History of Addiction

    by Carl Erik Fisher ...
    An authoritative, illuminating, and deeply humane history of addiction—a phenomenon that remains baffling and deeply misunderstood despite having touched countless lives—by an addiction psychiatrist striving to understand his own family and himself.As a psychiatrist-in-training fresh from medical school, Fisher was soon face-to-face with his own addiction crisis, one that nearly cost him ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • Undoing Drugs

    How Harm Reduction Is Changing the Future of Drugs and Addiction

    by Maia Szalavitz ...
    From “one of the bravest, smartest writers about addiction anywhere” (Johann Hari, New York Times bestselling author)—the untold story of harm reduction, a surprisingly simple idea with enormous powerDrug overdoses now kill more Americans annually than guns, cars or breast cancer. But we have tried to solve this national crisis with policies that only made matters worse. In the name of “sending ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism

    by Anne Case, Angus Deaton ...
    A New York Times BestsellerA Wall Street Journal BestsellerA New York Times Notable Book of 2020A New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceShortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the YearA New Statesman Book to ReadFrom economist Anne Case and Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton, a groundbreaking account of how the flaws in capitalism are fatal for America... ... Read more

    $20.89 CAD

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  • The Epidemic

    A Global History of Aids

    by Jonathan Engel ...
    This "perceptive and concise" history chronicles humanity's relationship with the AIDS virus ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).From the Castro bathhouses to AZT and the denial of AIDS in South Africa, this sweeping look at AIDS covers the epidemic from all angles and across the world. Engel seamlessly weaves together science, politics, and culture, writing with an even hand—noting the excesses ... Read more

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  • More Harm Than Good

    Drug Policy in Canada

    by Susan C. Boyd, Connie I. Carter, Donald MacPherson ...
    In More Harm Than Good, Carter, Boyd and MacPherson take a critical look at the current state of Canadian drug policy and raise key questions about the effects of Canada’s increasing involvement in and commitment to the “war on drugs.” A primer on Canadian drug policy, the analysis in More Harm Than Good is shaped by critical sociology and feminist perspectives on drugs and incorporates insights ... Read more

    Was $31.99 CAD Now $27.99 CAD

  • The Age of Anxiety

    A History of America's Turbulent Affair with Tranquilizers

    by Andrea Tone ...
    Anxious Americans have increasingly pursued peace of mind through pills and prescriptions. In 2006, the National Institute of Mental Health estimated that 40 million adult Americans suffer from an anxiety disorder in any given year: more than double the number thought to have such a disorder in 2001. Anti-anxiety drugs are a billion-dollar business. Yet as recently as 1955, when the first ... Read more

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