Insights

Category: Addiction

Multi-Generational Trauma and Tobique First Nation

June 30, 2011

If you ever thought that getting access to a psychiatrist is difficult in Toronto, you should try spending a couple days on the Tobique First Nation reserve in New Brunswick. The addiction counselors and children, family and youth workers I…

Is addiction a disease?

May 28, 2011

Margaret Wente Globe and Mail, Tuesday May 17, 2011 I’ve known a lot of addicts in my life – some of them all too well. Some were hooked on booze, some on cigarettes, a few on pot and one or…

What’s Your Time Perspective?

October 23, 2010

Let’s imagine that my sofa is a time machine and it rapidly transported us back in time. Can you take it to a place in the past where you and your husband were getting along well? What were you guys…