Time to wake up – Time to get busy – Time to step up – Make ‘em go tizzy
Peter Ferentzy holds a Ph.D. in Social and Political Thought from York University. He’s an author and activist working hard to liberate people with addiction problems and turn over destructive drug policy paradigms. He says he knows this topic “from the gutter right up to the halls of academe”. As a historian of addiction he brings a long-term perspective. Ferentzy wrote his bookDealing with Addiction — Why the 20th Century was Wrong after he lost two friends to overdose. In both cases he says “the governing approach to addiction was the cause”.
In his huffington post article titled “Ending Drug Prohibition and Emancipating the Addict” Ferentzy argues that…
“emancipation of those with substance addictions is consistent with what our civilisation has been accomplishing over the last two hundred years. The overcoming of harsh attitudes toward drug addicts will be viewed in much the same light as, today, we view the abolition of harsh punishments for children, the introduction of woman’s suffrage or even the abolition of slavery.”
Catch Peter Ferentzy’s talk:
Ending Drug Prohibition and Emancipating the Addict – the Last Frontier in a Struggle for Enlightenment
- Sunday January 22, 7:00 PM PST.
- Harbour Centre, Simon Fraser University’s Downtown Campus (555 West Hastings St)
- Presented by the Portland Hotel Society (PHS)
