Hey Iain – christopher here... the unlikely gym rat academic kid from the Ryerson gym back, back in the day... guess I didn't realize that you hadn't been updating "The Disciplined Pothead" for a while now, but just wanted to let you know that in spite of the fact that I lack any formal training, background, experience of qualifications in the (inherently interdisciplinary) field folks call "SOCIAL WORK", I've been teaching in Memorial University's School of Social Work for almost 11 bloody years now... and every single year, in my 'Health and Social Policy' course, I flag this website and list it on the syllabus for my 100 or so students every Fall... Anyhow, I hope you're good, and still fighting etc... By the way, should you ever be interested in a cheap vacation, Newfoundland is actually quite lovely – esp. if you have any affection for the outdoors, picking berries, wild mushrooms, and landscapes unlike ANYWHERE in ON – so now that I finally bought a proper house (about the only vaguely "grown up" thing about me, besides the job, I guess), you'd be welcome to come and visit any time, and stay as long as you want... I've had a bunch of different trans friends and collaborators out here over the years too, maybe the best of which (Zack Marshall) sadly now lives in Calgary (and seems to be THRIVING there, when last he and I spoke)... I live a little outside St. John's proper, by choice, but sometimes the isolation bit is admittedly a little tricky...
Hope you're well – please send my warm regards to SRCHC and everyone who works there from me, and get in touch if and when you have the time and inclination...
Take good care of you, yeah?
Best,
Christopher
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Christopher B.R. Smith, Ph.D. (He/him – heterodeviant) Associate Professor, Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador Office: : J-2009a, St. John’s College St. John’s, NL, A1C 5S7, CANADA Webex: https://mun.webex.com/meet/csmith13 Phone: (1-)709-864-7701 (Work) (1-)709-341-7909 (Mobile) Email: csmith13@mun.ca (Institutional) cbrs1977@gmail.com (Personal)
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RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
• Smith, C.B.R. & Foss, J. (2025). Promoting pedagogical ‘safe supply’ in response to Canada’s toxic poisoning drug crisis: A commentary on substance use education in social work curricula and the ‘toxic’ nature of Canada’s current drug supply. Critical and Radical Social Work(published online ahead of print 2025). Retrieved May 12, 2025, from https://doi.org/10.1332/20498608Y2025D000000083 o ***Selected as Editors Choice – Critical and Radical Social Work >>> FREE access until 31st Jan. 2026!
• Now Open Access: Addiction, Modernity, and the City: A Users' Guide to Urban Space (Routledge, 2016)
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would that we could wake up to what we were —when we were ocean and before that to when sky was earth, and animal was energy, and rock was liquid and stars were space and space was not
at all—nothing
before we came to believe humans were so important before this awful loneliness. (Marie Howe, The Singularity, 2019)
Hey Iain – christopher here... the unlikely gym rat academic kid from the Ryerson gym back, back in the day... guess I didn't realize that you hadn't been updating "The Disciplined Pothead" for a while now, but just wanted to let you know that in spite of the fact that I lack any formal training, background, experience of qualifications in the (inherently interdisciplinary) field folks call "SOCIAL WORK", I've been teaching in Memorial University's School of Social Work for almost 11 bloody years now... and every single year, in my 'Health and Social Policy' course, I flag this website and list it on the syllabus for my 100 or so students every Fall... Anyhow, I hope you're good, and still fighting etc... By the way, should you ever be interested in a cheap vacation, Newfoundland is actually quite lovely – esp. if you have any affection for the outdoors, picking berries, wild mushrooms, and landscapes unlike ANYWHERE in ON – so now that I finally bought a proper house (about the only vaguely "grown up" thing about me, besides the job, I guess), you'd be welcome to come and visit any time, and stay as long as you want... I've had a bunch of different trans friends and collaborators out here over the years too, maybe the best of which (Zack Marshall) sadly now lives in Calgary (and seems to be THRIVING there, when last he and I spoke)... I live a little outside St. John's proper, by choice, but sometimes the isolation bit is admittedly a little tricky...
ReplyDeleteHope you're well – please send my warm regards to SRCHC and everyone who works there from me, and get in touch if and when you have the time and inclination...
Take good care of you, yeah?
Best,
Christopher
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Christopher B.R. Smith, Ph.D. (He/him – heterodeviant)
Associate Professor, Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador
Office: : J-2009a, St. John’s College
St. John’s, NL, A1C 5S7, CANADA
Webex: https://mun.webex.com/meet/csmith13
Phone: (1-)709-864-7701 (Work)
(1-)709-341-7909 (Mobile)
Email: csmith13@mun.ca (Institutional)
cbrs1977@gmail.com (Personal)
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RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
• Smith, C.B.R. & Foss, J. (2025). Promoting pedagogical ‘safe supply’ in response to Canada’s toxic poisoning drug crisis: A commentary on substance use education in social work curricula and the ‘toxic’ nature of Canada’s current drug supply. Critical and Radical Social Work(published online ahead of print 2025). Retrieved May 12, 2025, from https://doi.org/10.1332/20498608Y2025D000000083
o ***Selected as Editors Choice – Critical and Radical Social Work >>> FREE access until 31st Jan. 2026!
• Now Open Access: Addiction, Modernity, and the City: A Users' Guide to Urban Space (Routledge, 2016)
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would that we could wake up to what we were
—when we were ocean and before that
to when sky was earth, and animal was energy, and rock was
liquid and stars were space and space was not
at all—nothing
before we came to believe humans were so important
before this awful loneliness.
(Marie Howe, The Singularity, 2019)
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