Transforming Addiction Gender, Trauma, Transdisciplinarity [Paperback]

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Addiction is a complex problem that requires more nuanced responses. Transforming Addictionadvances addictions research and treatment by promoting transdisciplinary collaboration, the integration of sex and gender, and issues of trauma and mental health. The authors demonstrate these shifts and offer a range of tools, methods, and strategies for responding to the complex factors and forces that produce and shape addiction. In addition to providing practical examples of innovation from a range of perspectives, the contributors demonstrate how addiction spans biological, social, environmental, and economic realms. Transforming Addictionis a call to action, and represents some of the most provocative ways of thinking about addiction research, treatment, and policy in the contemporary era.

Preface. Part 1.1. Cracking the problem of addition with a transformative approachL.Greaves, N.Poole and E.Boyle2. Fostering transdisciplinarity in addiction research trainingE.Boyle, M.E.Snow, N.Vittoz3. Integrating trauma with addiction research and treatmentN.Poole4. Of mice and women: transdisciplinarity in the laboratoryT.E.Baker, V.Lam, N.Lan, K.A.Uban, J.Weinberg5. Two-Eyed seeing in Indigenous addiction research and treatmentL.Hall Part 2. 6. Linking addiction, gender and trauma in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit L.Marcellus7. Bridging the biological and the social in neuroscience G.Einstein 8. Moving towards transdisciplinarity in research with marginalized populations I.Torchalla, V.Strehlau, E.Neilson, M.Krausz9. Using reflexivity to achieve transdisciplinarity in nursing and social work N.Clark, I.Handlovsl3,