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A CULTURE OF PREVENTION : rebuilding communities by R.Marcus Gaudry Nov 27 2009 Recently, the necessity to create a culture of prevention has become abundantly clear to me, especially since it is looking more and more like a globalized culture of addiction continues to progress despite any effort to put a stop to it. In order to get a clear idea of what it means to create a culture of prevention, it seems to me to only make sense to define what exactly that means, and in order to do that, it appears essential that we first define certain terms, for example the term "culture". This word alone has several meanings, depending on the context in which it is being used. For the purposes of this paper, we will be applying a social, historical, and a somewhat anthropological context to the term: cul-ture : [kuhl-cher] n . a particular form or stage of civilization, as that of a certain nation or period: Greek culture. the behaviors and beliefs characteristic of a particular social, ...

PSYCHOSOCIAL INTEGRATION: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE DISLOCATION THEORY OF ADDICTION R.Marcus Gaudry Nov 18, 2009 My friends,colleagues and all our guests: Let me begin by thanking you all for allowing me a moment to communicate with you, and I hope you find what I have to share helpful and informative. Many of us, I would imagine, either know of someone or know someone personally who has, for all intents and purposes, been transformed from being a familiar person into a slave of some destructive habit or another - whether it be the use of a substance, a process such as gambling or video gaming, or even a lifestyle that lends itself to self harm. In this, we can clearly see that the term "addiction", applies to much more than simply substance abuse. Some of us may have even endured such a transformation into slavery ourselves. In either case, or possibly for some of us here today in both cases, we may be finding ourselves at odds with a question that begs to be answered: "Wh...

I know this is probably a little bit late, but today I want to talk about the Fort Hood shooting. To begin with, my heartfelt prayers for those who are affected directly by this tragedy, and for those who are indirectly affected as well. Some of the following material might sound like an attempt to justify the actions of suspected shooter Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, but that is not the case. This is, in part, using some of the things I am learning about in school as a reflection on the incident.As some of you know, I am currently an intern in the health professions - in particular mental health, and more specifically addictions. I am doing this as a means to give back some of the recovery I have enjoyed over the past six years. While this particular case does not involve addiction, it does bring to mind some of the material that has come to my attention. The following bit is from an article I found at http://www.cknw.com/News/World/Article.aspx?id=157617 His uncle Rafik Hamad, 64, said Sat...