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Notes

Notes

1. The New Scotland Yard's Central Drug Trafficking Database Project in association with the Semeion Research Center in Rome, Italy is an outgrowth of MESIDU faculty working together.

2. An uprising among Palestinian Arabs, individuals and organized groups, of the Gaza Strip and West Bank, beginning in late 1987and continuing sporadically—first and second intifada- in protest against continued Israeli occupation of these territories.

3. Appendix 1 briefly describes this new “museology”. A museology display: Questioning and answering, by Levy-Aldema (from this volume and page).

4. An international computer-based communication system which permits free telephone calls to anywhere in the world by using a program which is downloaded, gratis, at www.skyp.com.

5. You, the reader, are invited to “image” concepts and not to remain with the word. One takes for granted that if, and when, one moves the opposite of “forward” that one is going backwards. Not necessarily. Dancers, for example, learn to move forward with their backs by becoming and being sensitive with their various perceptual sensors/senses about what is “there” that one doesn't see visually. You are invited to “risk” moving and exploring in a known or unknown environment with your back “leading” you as you perceive, pay attention, weigh and make judgments, decisions, learning from what you have done or haven't done, being aware of your monitoring process/system, integrating.

6. The “healing forest”, part of a Native American tradition, is discussed by Dr. Jeannette in this volume. Readers are also referred to: Coyhis, D. and White, W. L. (2006). Alcohol Problems in Native America: The Untold Story of Resistance and Recovery—‘The Truth About the Lie’. Colorado, Springs, CO: White Bison, Inc.

7. Tommy Chong and Cheech Marin created “pot” centered comedy acts and many movies. Margura, S. (2007). The Relationship between Addiction Treatment and 12-Step Fellowships: Current Knowledge and Research Questions. Substance Use and Misuse 42:341.

8. The National Drug Threat Assessment, published annually by The U.S. National Drug Intelligence Center “is designed to provide [U.S.] decision makers with the timely, strategic, drug-related intelligence needed to effectively formulate counter drug policy, establish law enforcement priorities, and allocate resources.” National Drug Intelligence Center 319 Washington Street, 5th Floor Johnstown, PA 15901. Tel: [phone]; FAX: [phone]; E-mail: [email protected]

9. There are no them. There's only us. When we separate ourselves from those aspects of humanity we do not like, we do so primarily out of fear that those aspects live in us. And the truth is, they do. The Dance. Oriah Mountain Dreamer.

10. Einstein, S. (ed.) (2002). The Middle Eastern Summer Institute on Drug Use Proceedings: 1997-1999. Substance Use and Misuse 37:8–10.

11. Einstein, S. (ed.) (2003). The Middle Eastern Summer Institute on Drug Use Proceedings: 2001. Substance Use and Misuse 38:10.

12. Einstein, S. (ed.) (2003). The Middle Eastern Summer Institute on Drug Use Proceedings: 2001. Substance Use and Misuse 38:11–13.