‘The tug of war over Hart Island’
The 18 July 2021 NY Times includes an article entitled ‘The tug of war over Hart Island.’ A mile long, Hart Island is in Long Island Sound and is part of the Bronx (New York, US). Hart Island is still used as the ‘potter’s field’ for the city, with over a million New Yorkers buried […]
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Imagery and drug addiction services
The Sunday NY Times (4 May 2014) included an article entitled ‘Heroin’s new hometown: On Staten Island, rising tide of heroin takes hold.’ It is a sad and difficult article about the awful effects of addiction on: those who are addicted, their family and friends, as well as their particular communities and society overall. It is worth […]
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Social Role Valorization theme: model coherency (post #3 in a series)
‘Chronic criminal disease: An SRV-based critique of drug addiction services’ by Susanne Hartfiel The above December 2006 article published in The SRV Journal applied the construct of relevance, potency and model coherency to addiction services. The article is based on the author’s study of two methadone programs in two German cities. The analysis of assumptions (one of […]
In: Uncategorized · Tagged with: addiction, model coherency, potency, relevance, Wolf Wolfensberger