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1CEO of RIWI Corp. and a senior fellow of Massey College, is the co-author of three books on the science of mental health and is writing a new book about addiction.
Healthcare Quarterly (Toronto, Ont.)
|February 12, 2019
Abstract:
Imagine a Minister for Addictions, not only for individuals we criminalize and stigmatize as "drug addicts" but for us all. So misunderstood is addiction, so scant is our public discourse about its scientific basis and so deep is the despair wrought by its present spread that we require a government reboot.
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