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Richard W. Thatcher
Richard Thatcher, BA, MA, and PhD, is a sociologist, social worker, and social planning consultant. He has worked for several decades in the fields of mental health and social services and communit...view moreRichard Thatcher, BA, MA, and PhD, is a sociologist, social worker, and social planning consultant. He has worked for several decades in the fields of mental health and social services and community health planning. As a counsellor he has focused a good deal of his attention on substance abuse and behavioural dependencies.
Dr. Thatcher is the author of Vision Seekers: A Structured Personal and Social Development Program for First Nations’ Youth at High Social Risk (2001); Deadly Duo: Tobacco and Convenience Foods—The Other Substance Abuse Epidemics Afflicting the First Nations and Inuit of Canada (2001); and Fighting Firewater Fictions: Beyond the Disease Model of Addictions in First Nations (2004).
A licensed professional social worker in private practice and a certified clinical sociologist, he is now semi-retired and lives with his wife in a converted school house in the rural village of Craven in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan.view less
Books by Richard W. Thatcher
Thinkin' Drinkin': From the Teen Years Forward: a Rational, Safe, Worry-Free Approach to Lifetime Alcohol Use or Abstinence