Research Catalog

Title

Addictions and healing in Aboriginal country / Gregory Phillips.

Author

Phillips, Gregory.

Publication

Canberra, ACT : Aboriginal Studies Press for the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, 2003.

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Additional Authors

Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.

Description

xix, 210 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

Working with communities - Introducing illness - Grog, gunga and gambling - Reasons for use - Strategies to address use - Solutions from Canada - Factors involved in healing and change.

Subject

• Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander
• Social Conditions
• Gambling
• Substance-Related Disorders > therapy
• Substance-Related Disorders > epidemiology
• Aboriginal Australians > Drug use
• Aboriginal Australians > Health and hygiene
• Aboriginal Australians > Medical care
• Australia > epidemiology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-204) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Pt. 1. Upsetting the balance, opening the doors -- Ch. 1. Working with communities -- Ch. 2. Introducing illness -- Pt. 2. The story of addictions in big river -- Ch. 3. Grog, gunga and gambling -- Ch. 4. Why do people use? -- Ch. 5. Addressing grog, gunga and gambling -- Pt. 3. Looking elsewhere for ideas -- Ch. 6. Efforts from native Canada -- Pt. 4. Healing and change -- Ch. 7. Waking up from a kind of sleep -- App. A. Protocol for visits to big river -- App. B. Individual consent forms.

ISBN

0855754508

LCCN

^^2004353566

OCLC

• 53706251
• SCSB-10541073

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library