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050 4 _aE78.C2T47 2004
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082 0 4 _a362.29208997
084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aThatcher, Richard W.
_eautore
245 1 0 _aFighting Firewater Fictions :
_bMoving Beyond the Disease Model of Alcoholism in First Nations /
_cRichard W. Thatcher.
264 1 _aToronto :
_bUniversity of Toronto Press,
_c[2004]
264 4 _c©2004
300 _a1 online resource (270 p.)
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520 _aIn Fighting Firewater Fictions, Richard W. Thatcher describes and explains the emergence and perpetuation of the 'firewater complex' - the cultural construct of an informally sanctioned, destructive, binge-drinking norm in First Nations reserve communities.The complex has reified alcoholism as an inevitability in the First Nations - an approach that has resulted in essential aspects of collective and personal responsibility being vacated in favour of therapeutic interventions assisted by social personnel of questionable expertise. This substitution has had the effect of relieving government policy-makers and reserve leadership from accountability for problematic community development strategies that have long since outgrown their support capacities.Thatcher argues that the conditions that give rise to extraordinary alcohol abuse rates in First Nations are largely traceable to the hopelessness associated with multi-generational unemployment. Fighting Firewater Fictions calls for community re-organization around a band development policy that looks beyond the reserve, and outlines a strategy that shifts the current, exclusive emphasis on the needs of alcoholics towards the neglected counselling and non-residential service needs of potential or actual binge-drinkers. This is essential reading for anybody working in, or seeking to understand, aboriginal communities that are experiencing problems with alcoholism.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023)
650 0 _aAlcoholism
_xTreatment
_zCanada.
650 0 _aAlcoholism
_zCanada
_xPrevention.
650 0 _aDrinking of alcoholic beverages
_zCanada.
650 0 _aIndigenous peoples
_xAlcohol use
_zCanada.
650 7 _aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies.
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