Wild Woman Elizabeth
Elizabeth is having trouble with the local police - like so many street involved people. She has court in the morning and anticipates wearing handcuffs again...
...she asked me to take her picture, but wouldn't show her face - and she insisted on posing next to the "safe needle disposal site" box.
WORD UP!!!! - wave your hands in the air like you don't care
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_7Kp_TapA4
“The hardcore drug addicts that I treat, are, without exception, people who have had extraordinarily difficult lives. The commonality is childhood abuse. These people all enter life under extremely adverse circumstances. Not only did they not get what they need for healthy development; they actually got negative circumstances of neglect. I don’t have a single female patient in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver who wasn’t sexually abused, for example, as were many of the men, or abused, neglected and abandoned serially, over and over again. That’s what sets up the brain biology of addiction. In other words, the addiction is related both psychologically, in terms of emotional pain relief, and neurobiological development to early adversity.” (Gabor Maté)
Wild Woman Elizabeth
Elizabeth is having trouble with the local police - like so many street involved people. She has court in the morning and anticipates wearing handcuffs again...
...she asked me to take her picture, but wouldn't show her face - and she insisted on posing next to the "safe needle disposal site" box.
WORD UP!!!! - wave your hands in the air like you don't care
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_7Kp_TapA4
“The hardcore drug addicts that I treat, are, without exception, people who have had extraordinarily difficult lives. The commonality is childhood abuse. These people all enter life under extremely adverse circumstances. Not only did they not get what they need for healthy development; they actually got negative circumstances of neglect. I don’t have a single female patient in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver who wasn’t sexually abused, for example, as were many of the men, or abused, neglected and abandoned serially, over and over again. That’s what sets up the brain biology of addiction. In other words, the addiction is related both psychologically, in terms of emotional pain relief, and neurobiological development to early adversity.” (Gabor Maté)