Professional Development: Re-thinking Root Causes of Addiction - Vancouver

A Community Aware  Forum for discussion of community concerns

ADDICTION

It’s Not About Drugs

Dates: January 13 to February 24, 2015 - Seven Tuesday Nights

Location: Mosaic Immigrant Services (Ground Floor) 

1720 Grant St., at Commercial Drive, 7:00-9:00pm

Registration by email to communityaware@gmail.com

Cost: $20 total for all seven sessions

Re-thinking  Root Causes of Addiction

January 13      Addiction as an adaptation to dislocation: A historical view

  

January 20      Treatment, harm reduction, and the recovery movement

January 27      Breaking the vicious cycle of fragmentation, dislocation, and addiction

February 3      12 step groups and the western spiritual approach.

February 10     The human spirit; beyond logic

 February 17    Hope: Imagining a world without addiction

 February 24    Content to be planned with participants  

 A Community Aware has served the Commercial Drive neighbourhood since 1999. Bruce Alexander wrote The Globalization of Addiction: A Study in Poverty of Spirit (Oxford Univ. Press). Barry Morris is a United Church Minister at Longhouse Ministry in Vancouver. Terry Patten is a retired administrator and facilitates mindfulness workshops.