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Biomedical and popular discourses for understanding addiction persistently essentialize behaviors labelled “addictive” as signifying individual dysfunction and aberrance; the Canadian novels examined in this study expose how such dominant interpretive discourses strategically obfuscate the role of systemic inequalities in producing and replicating social suffering, which becomes stigmatized as “addiction.” By evoking and subverting dominant tropes of addiction narratives, these novels attest to the ways that such tropes work to sustain class, gender, and racial inequalities through a sacrificial disavowal of those who call attention to the inevitable human costs of disciplinary power. This study therefore tracks the ways in which selected Canadian addiction narratives challenge the pathologizing nature of dominant literary and cultural discourses of addiction, foreground the logic of sacrifice those discourses demand, and denaturalize the biopolitical circuitry in which those discourses appear. Undoing Addiction ultimately proposes that an emergent genre of Canadian writing about addiction conditions a new cultural literacy—one that fosters alternative interpretations of addiction that account for and struggle against the systemic inequalities by which addiction is engendered and sustained. / Thesis (Ph.D, English) -- Queen's University, 2013-08-09 16:42:38.782

This manuscript is collection of short stories about addiction and incarceration.

Dissertation submitted in partial compliance with the requirements for the Master's Degree in Technology: Homoeopathy, Technikon Natal, Durban, 1998. / The purpose of this study was to investigate the use of isotherapy together with the homoeopathic simillimum whilst comparing it with isotherapy combined with placebo in helping people to stop smoking, in terms of a daily smoking log, and the participants attitude to their tobacco smoking addiction. Thirty participants completed this double-blind randornised trial which took place in the northern suburbs of Gauteng. Participants responded to advertisements and were selected according to certain criteria: participants were to be over the age of 18 years of age, and were to have smoked 15 or more cigarettes a day for more than a year. Group 1 received isotherapy and homoeopathic simillimum and group 2 isotherapy and placebo. Each participant received 5 treatments over a period of 3 months. Cigarette consumption was recorded daily by each participant and questionnaires were completed in the presence of the researcher at each consultation. The daily smoking logs and the questionnaire scores were totalled and statistically analysed. Comparison with respect to cigarette consumption between the two groups were analysed using the two-sample unpaired t-test. The Mann-Whitney U-tests were used for inter-group comparisons and the Wilcoxon's signed rank tests for intra-group comparisons with respect to the questionnaires. Data was presented in tables and bar graphs. In each case a was set at 0.05. / M

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University of Macau / Faculty of Health Sciences