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Longing for evidenced-based traditions: Addiction treatment in Canada's Northwest Territories
2016
Medicine Anthropology Theory
In Native North America, clinical/healing spaces are caught up in political struggles for autonomy. In Canada's Northwest Territories, where rates of alcohol consumption are substantially higher than national averages, there are ongoing attempts to align therapeutic practice with traditional Aboriginal modes of healing and well-being. This Think Piece traces the 'therapeutic trajectory' of alcohol treatment in and out of this subarctic region. I show how the language of 'evidence-based
doi:10.17157/mat.3.1.252
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