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Caroline White at the office of the Hearing Voices Network in Holyoke, Mass. The program relies on members supporting one another, does not use the words “patient” or “treatment”

HOLYOKE, Mass. — Some of the voices inside Caroline White’s head have been a lifelong comfort, as protective as a favorite aunt. It was the others — “you’re nothing, they’re out to get you, to kill you” — that led her down a rabbit hole of failed treatments and over a decade of hospitalizations, therapy and medications, all aimed at silencing those internal threats.  Read the rest of this article at The New York Times… Image by Sasha Maslov

Dozens of interviews and meetings with groups at the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users facility uncovered unique phenomena within the city’s notorious open-drug market

Dr. Anke Stallwitz, a professor of social and community psychology from the Protestant University of Applied Sciences Freiburg in Germany, came to Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside in March to conduct a study of violence in drug-dealing situations. The long-time international drug and addictions researcher was surprised by the violent “extreme sanctions” being used by some higher-level dealers when debts weren’t settled.  Read the rest of this article at The Province…