Rethinking Addiction Through Research and Poetry
with Dr Rayner Tan — Addiction is often spoken about at a distance, or as someone else's problem. This session weaves together lived experience, research, and poetry drawn from recovery stories to invite a different kind of understanding - one that helps us recognise addiction as part of the broader human condition. Through lived experience, science and art, we hope to open up space for empathy, compassion, and honest reflection.
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Rethinking Addiction Through Research and Poetry
Thursday, 25 June at 8:00 pm · Can Can Bar (28 Carpenter St. #01-01, Singapore 059827)
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