Main description:

Responding to the Oppression of Addiction brings together the voices of over 40 academics and social work practitioners from across Canada to provide a diverse and multidimensional perspective to the study of addiction. This thoroughly updated edition features eight new chapters and streamlines the content of the previous editions, with chapters condensed and combined to create a more accessible text.The fourth edition features new content on themes such as residential schools, prevention initiatives, special needs of different populations, policy perspectives framed within an anti-oppression standpoint, cognitive behavioral therapy, and the emerging topic of problem gambling. Returning chapters have been updated, with contributors providing more in-depth examinations of trauma-informed approaches. The entire volume has a strengthened anti-oppressive framework, on both an overarching and by-chapter level. This celebrated and varied collection is an indispensable resource for upper-level students, graduate students, and practitioners working in the fields of social work, addictions studies, and the helping professions.

Contents:

Preface
PART 1: CORE CONCEPTS
Introduction to the section
1. Creating a Holistic Understanding of Addiction
2. From Laggard to Leader? Drug Policy in Canada
3. Canada's Legal Approach to Substance Use and Addiction
4. The Opioid Crisis in Canada
5. Prevention as Controversy: Harm Reduction
PART 2: THE INTERSECTION OF FAMILY AND ADDICTION
Introduction to the section
6. Coming Home: Rediscovering the Family in Addiction Treatment in Canada
7. Perinatal Substance Use Disorders
8. The Treatment of Adolescent Substance Misuse
9. Impact of Addiction on Parenting Post-Separation
10. The Intersections of Substance Use, Sexual Activity, and Addiction
11. The Intersection of Intimate Partner Violence and Addiction: A Two-Tail Phenomenon
PART 3: A QUESTION OF EQUITY
Introduction to the section
12. Understanding the Ultimate Oppression: Addiction in Native Land
13. I Have Kept Too Many Secrets: The Residential School Experience
14. Identifying the Landscape of Substance Use among the Inuit in Nunavut
15. The Experience of Addiction within the Black Community: Treatments and Responses
16. A House with Many Rooms: A Snapshot of Substance Use Across Muslim Populations
17. The Experiences of Chinese Youth in Drug Treatment Programs
18. Understanding Substance Use and Addiction from a Queer Perspective: Towards Mobilizing a Queer-Oriented Harm Reduction Approach
19. Examining the Intersection of Addiction and Issues of Ability
20. Concurrent Disorders and Social Work Intervention
PART 4: TREATMENT CONSIDERATIONS
Introduction to the section
21. Is Alcoholics Anonymous of Value for Social Workers?
22. Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies: The Three Waves of CBT
23. Trauma Issues and Substance Use: Considerations for Social Work Practice
24. Narrative Therapy Ideas and Practices for Working with Addiction
25. PAWSitive Support: A Canine Assisted Learning Program to Support Prisoners in Healing from Substance Use