Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Everybody Uses Drugs....


Everybody uses drugs. Alcohol, antihistamines or heroin ... all of us put substances into our bodies to make us feel better sometimes ...

Drugs: A Community Dialogue
with Dr. Gabor Maté

Join us to discuss with Dr. Gabor Maté topics like stigma, discrimination, and criminalization; the impact of trauma, well-being and self-medication; poverty, gentrification and services; and harm reduction.

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Saturday June 8 from 12 sharp to 2 pm
All Saint's Church - Community Centre
315 Dundas St. East (corner of Sherbourne and Dundas)

This is a FREE event.

Food, refreshments, and childcare will be provided.
Space is limited and will be first come first served. Priority will be given to people who are homeless, under-housed or experiencing poverty.

This space is wheelchair accessible.

Dr. Maté is the author of a ground-shifting best-seller about addiction,
"In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts", and other compelling books about our brains and what drives them. For seven years he served as Medical Co-ordinator of the Palliative Care Unit at Vancouver Hospital. More recently he worked for twelve years in Vancouver’s notorious Downtown Eastside neighbourhood with patients suffering from hard-core drug addiction, mental illness and HIV.

Visit
http://drgabormate.com/

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Sponsored by :
Toronto Harm Reduction Alliance
Toronto Harm Reduction Task Force - http://toharmreduction.org/
Canadian Harm Reduction Network - http://canadianharmreduction.com/