Fighting Firewater Fictions: Moving Beyond the Disease Model of Alcoholism in First Nations
Fighting Firewater Fictions: Moving Beyond the Disease Model of Alcoholism in First Nations
Used – In Fighting Firewater Fictions, Richard W. Thatcher describes and explains the emergence and perpetuation of the ‘firewater complex’ – the cultural construct of an informally sanctioned, destructive, binge-drinking norm in First Nations reserve communities. The complex has reified alcoholism as an inevitability in the First Nations — an approach that has resulted in essential aspects of collective and personal responsibility being vacated in favour of therapeutic interventions assisted b
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