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ALL and the Dept. of Adult and Community Education Addiction/Psychology Seminar Growing Space: Recovery, Education and Capability

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Author: Deirdre Delaney, accredited psychotherapist (M.I.A.H.I.P, MCPI) and a tutor with the department of adult and community education in Maynooth University.

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Deirdre Delaney

The Adult Education programme run by Maynooth University reaches all parts of Ireland. Every year our Addiction and Psychology certificate and diploma programmes gather from all around the country to share a day of presentations and workshops on the Maynooth campus. It is a very important day in our academic calendar but of course over the last two years we were unable to gather. Though an online day was organised, the pandemic never felt more real. Students and tutors alike missed the opportunity to be together with others on campus. For many students it will be their first time to set foot on a university campus. I always hope that it won’t be their last time.  

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On Function, Restoration, and Recovery

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Author: A. Jamie Saris, Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Assisting Living and Learning (ALL) Institute member, Maynooth University

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A. Jamie Saris

A former student of mine (who has struggled with opiate use and misuse during much of their adult life) recently contacted me for a reference. As I have worked ethnographically with heroin users for many years, and I have written extensively on “addiction” as a concept, I have occasionally been approached by students who have experienced some of the situations that I have written about – from the regulation of time imposed by regular ingestion of a Heroin substitute through the experience of regular use of illegal drugs (especially Heroin) spiralling out of control into increasing risk-taking and subsequent legal jeopardy and health dangers. Thus, over the years, this student and I have had several conversations around their ideas of “addiction” and “recovery” in relation to my work and theorizing.

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