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Pathways to healing: balancing the tensions between harm reduction and cultural practices in a managed alcohol program for Indigenous adults in Calgary, Canada
Abstract Objectives: This study aimed to examine the strengths and challenges of running a managed alcohol program for Indigenous adults in a non-Indigenous organization and posit areas to embed cultural practices as a necessary aspect for healing. Methods: Grounded in a Two-Eyed Seeing approach that weaved western and Indigenous ways of knowing and a community-based research design, this project included staff group and individual interviews followed by a Knowledge Keeper review.
A pilot evaluation of managed alcohol programs operating in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic - Harm Reduction Journal
Results The final participant cohort included nine individuals (six men and three women) with a mean age of 54.1 years (range 40–70). Participants identified themselves as White (n = 6) or Indigenous (n = 3); seven had completed at least some post-secondary education; four were never married and four divorced or separated. Six participants were unemployed, and all participants were on some form of income assistance or welfare.
“Give me the reigns of taking care of myself with a home”: Healing environments in an Indigenous-led alcohol harm reduction program - Harm Reduction Journal
Three themes reflect family members’ perspectives on the role of the IAHRRP and CSH in relation to alcohol, healing, and factors that promote healing environments. In It’s a choice I’m making right now, family members outlined the importance of the IAHRRP in facilitating a relationship to alcohol based in choice rather than survival, with varying goals from abstinence to safer, more individually ‘controlled’ drinking.
Eyes of the beholders: Multi‐method relationships between internalizing and externalizing symptom dimensions and aggression risk
Aggression, whether directed at oneself (i.e., suicide attempts, non-suicidal self-injury) or at others (i.e., physical aggression), exacts a high burden on society (Shepard et al., 2016). Because these multiple forms of aggression can vary in etiology and correlates (Romero-Martínez et al., 2022), strategies tailored to different types of aggression are likely needed to more effectively intervene and prevent aggression.
“If I knew I could get that every hour instead of alcohol, I would take the cannabis”: need and feasibility of cannabis substitution implementation in Canadian managed alcohol programs
Bernie Pauly1,2, Meaghan Brown ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0001-9509-11091,2, Clifton Chow1,3, Ashley Wettlaufer1,4, East Side Illicit Drinkers Group for Education (EIDGE), Brittany Graham1,5,6, Karen Urbanoski1,7, Russell Callaghan8,9, Cindy Rose10, Michelle Jordan11, Tim Stockwell1,12, Gerald Thomas13 & Christy Sutherland14,15 Harm Reduction Journal volume 18, Article number: 65 (2021) Cite this article Abstract Background While there is robust evidence for strategies to reduce harms of illicit...
Brown and Gagnon: Why we need ‘safe’ spaces to consume cannabis
A woman exhales while smoking a joint during the annual 420 marijuana rally on Parliament Hill. Justin Tang / THE CANADIAN PRESS Safe consumption of legal and illegal substances is of particular concern to Canada’s nurses. Nurses have been at the forefront of challenging political barriers that restricted the implementation of safer consumption spaces, including supervised injection services.
14 Yoga Studios That Will Change How You Think About Yoga
Taylor JewellWhen you think of yoga, what do you imagine? For most people that vision probably includes Lotus pose and echoes of chanting. And, sure, that’s one way to do yoga. But more and more, studios are embracing new ways to practice yoga that might include hip-hop beats, kettle bells, or a freshly brewed cup of Joe.
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