A First-Person Account by Gabriel Julien I did a lot of drugs when I was a teen, and it made my mental health fragile. In 2007, I was on the French language TV reality show Occupation Double. In 2009, I …
Catégorie : Addiction
Can someone ever stop being an addict? Can a former addict limit their drug taking to simply recreational use? After you’ve stopped using, do you spend the rest of your life still craving your drug? By Delphine Caubet I met …
There is nothing new under the sun: boys have always learned to repress their emotions in order to live up to gender stereotypes. “A boy never cries. Be strong!” is an example given by journalist Liz Plank in her book …
Sophie is disinterested with all that surrounds her. She doesn’t want to go out with her friends. All she wants to do is sleep all day. Let’s face it, Sophie is sad. By Delphine Caubet Her doctor diagnoses her as …
When you’ve been sexually assaulted by your own father and sold off by your own mother, it’s tough to say that prostitution is a choice. It’s just a continuation. By Martine Letarte According to the Council on the Status of …
How happy kids are to be on vacation! More time to have fun, to draw, to read, to play outside and to… sit in front of a screen! Now there’s a fight parents hate to engage in each summer… By …
Among the factors that accelerate the aging process, we find stress. By Raymond Viger Studies present stress in different forms and in different contexts. We say that students are stressed. Men are too. Parents are stressed. Women too… everyone is …
Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook, LinkedIn. These names are now part of our daily lives. By Sarah Langot And yet there are people who are fighting their own cyber-addiction by trying to get off these social media sites. Alice studies contemporary …
For over a quarter of a century, interveners like myself have walked the lengths of the streets they serve in order to exchange, with addicts, dirty needles for clean drug paraphernalia. By Raymond Viger It’s all part of a strategy …
Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook, LinkedIn. These names are now part of our daily lives. By Sarah Langot And yet there are people who are fighting their own cyber-addiction by trying to get off these social media sites. Sylvain is a …