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Author(s): Trudy Norman PhD, Dan Reist MTh
Publisher: Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research
Publication Date: 2021
Human experience is complex. Our choices and behaviours, including using substances, are influenced by numerous factors including our biology, our history and social values, and the physical and social environments we live in. People have been using a wide variety of psychoactive (mindaltering) drugs for thousands of years to celebrate successes; to help deal with grief, sadness, and other uncomfortable feelings; to mark rites of passage and to p...