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Jesse Ventura's Marijuana Manifesto by Jesse Ventura
epub |eng | 2016-03-21 | Author:Jesse Ventura

• In 2014, the drug overdose death rate for whites aged twenty-five to thirty-four was five times what it was in 1999. • The overdose rate for thirty-five-to-forty-four-year-old whites tripled ...
( Category: Social Policy March 22,2017 )
Brave New Weed by Joe Dolce
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-08-19 | Author:Joe Dolce

Simpson doesn’t sell oils and he gives the formula away for free. His goal, he says, is not profit but to spread the cannabis oil gospel to anyone who’ll listen. ...
( Category: Popular Culture March 21,2017 )
The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World by Michael Marmot
epub |eng | 2016-11-05 | Author:Michael Marmot [Marmot, Michael]

By focusing on the problem in a strategic way, working with young people, giving them access to information, and perhaps above all, caring, authorities in these towns lowered the toll ...
( Category: Social Policy February 26,2017 )
Youth Substance Abuse: A Reference Handbook by David Newton
epub |eng | | Author:David Newton [David E. Newton]

References Enoch, M. A., and D. Goldman. 2001. “The Genetics of Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse.” Current Psychiatry Reports. 3: 144–151. Gerevich, J., E. Bácskai, and Z. Danics. 2005. “A Case ...
( Category: Reference September 15,2016 )
Drink : The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol (9780062241818) by Johnston Ann Dowsett
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-12-28 | Author:Johnston, Ann Dowsett [Johnston, Ann Dowsett]

10. The Modern Woman’s Steroid POPPING THE CORK ON MOTHER’S LITTLE HELPER I can bring home the bacon, fry it up in a pan, and never let you forget that ...
( Category: Alcoholism June 26,2016 )
The Human Right to Health (Norton Global Ethics Series) by Jonathan Wolff
epub |eng, eng | 2012-01-17 | Author:Jonathan Wolff

TRIPS AND THE PRICE OF MEDICINES Human right to health activists often pay a great deal of attention to the underlying determinants of health and illness, such as poverty and ...
( Category: Human Rights May 7,2016 )
The Social Work Interview by Alfred Kadushin
epub |eng | 2013-05-02 | Author:Alfred Kadushin [Kadushin, Alfred]

CONFRONTATION The purpose of a confrontation is to point out discrepancies in the client’s presentation that reflect unrecognized conflicts, defenses, and motives that obstruct desired changes. The definition of the ...
( Category: Disabled May 3,2016 )
Our Kind of People: A Continent's Challenge, a Country's Hope by Iweala Uzodinma
epub |eng | 2012-07-10 | Author:Iweala, Uzodinma [Iweala, Uzodinma]

DEATH On one of my trips to Nigeria, Doc and Samaila introduced me to a man named Ikenna, who ran a bar on the same military base where I happened ...
( Category: AIDS April 29,2016 )
The Last Hunger Season by Roger Thurow
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Roger Thurow [Thurow, Roger]

FRANCIS WANJALA MAMATI was lost amid the towering maize stalks on his shamba. “Over here,” he shouted to his wife, Mary, who was coming to join him for a day ...
( Category: Kenya April 26,2016 )
1623363853 (N) by Nathanael Johnson
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2016-04-14 | Author:Nathanael Johnson

TURKEY VULTURE Josephine, breathless and wild-eyed, found me in the kitchen. “Papa! There’s an eagle!” “Do you mean a seagull?” “No, an e-gull!” She pointed outside. I wiped my hands ...
( Category: Ecology April 17,2016 )
The Metamorphoses of Fat by George Vigarello
epub |eng | 2013-05-27 | Author:George Vigarello

The Archaic and the Modern Every diet recommended in the early nineteenth century does not rely on the new chemistry. Earlier beliefs and habits persist to varying degrees and with ...
( Category: Cultural April 10,2016 )
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors by Susan Sontag
epub |eng | 2016-02-23 | Author:Susan Sontag

3 Because of countless metaphoric flourishes that have made cancer synonymous with evil, having cancer has been experienced by many as shameful, therefore something to conceal, and also unjust, a ...
( Category: Pathology March 8,2016 )
On Immunity : An Inoculation (9781555973278) by Biss Eula
epub |eng | 2014-03-01 | Author:Biss, Eula

MY GRANDFATHER LOST HIS FATHER to tuberculosis when he was ten. On the other side of my family, both my grandmother and my grandfather lost siblings to infectious diseases. One ...
( Category: Medicine March 2,2016 )
The Inner Life of the Dying Person by Allan Kellehear
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-04-15 | Author:Allan Kellehear

8 Waiting—In-between-ness I grew up with six brothers. That’s how I learned to dance—waiting for the bathroom. —Bob Hope Waiting for death has long been acknowledged as part of both ...
( Category: Grief & Bereavement February 22,2016 )
Their Fate Is Our Fate by Peter Doherty
epub |eng | 2013-07-24 | Author:Peter Doherty

14 Blue bloods and chicken bugs TRADITIONALLY, ANY NOTION OF good breeding and inheritance was synonymous with the idea of blood lines. That was before the rediscovery of Gregor Mendel’s ...
( Category: Epidemiology February 21,2016 )

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