by Peter J Adams | Jul 11, 2021 | Addiction
Addiction is often seen as some form of attribute or condition belonging to an individual person and produced by a complex interaction of that person’s body and mind. I see it differently. I see addiction as primarily a social event, and, through the metaphor of an...
by Peter J Adams | Jun 7, 2021 | Violence
I find it helpful to think of violence against women as involving similar processes to those operating when one country seeks to colonize another. These may at first seem unrelated, but there are some interesting parallels. When one nation sets out to colonize another...
by Peter J Adams | Apr 10, 2021 | Addiction, Gambling
The presence of practitioners in recovery from their own addiction as members of teams working with addictions has a critical value in developing service effectiveness. From the point of view of clients coming to a service, the visible presence of recovering...
by Peter J Adams | Jan 30, 2021 | Miscellaneous
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by Peter J Adams | Jan 30, 2021 | Addiction
Our responses to problems associated with alcohol and drugs are typically informed by three quite different traditions of thinking; traditions which bump up regularly against each other like large tectonic plates, crunching and grinding, leading at times to tremors of...
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