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Lupick, Travis, 1985- author.
Subjects
Drug addicts -- British Columbia -- Vancouver -- Social conditions.
Drug addicts -- Health and hygiene -- British Columbia -- Vancouver.
Drug addicts -- Civil rights -- British Columbia -- Vancouver.
Drug addicts -- Political activity -- British Columbia -- Vancouver.
Drug addicts -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- British Columbia -- Vancouver.
Drug addiction -- Treatment -- British Columbia -- Vancouver.
Drug addiction -- British Columbia -- Vancouver -- Prevention.
Opioid abuse -- British Columbia -- Vancouver.
Drug addiction -- British Columbia -- Vancouver.
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Lupick, Travis, 1985- author.
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Fighting for space :...
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Fighting for space : how a group of drug users transformed one city's struggle with addiction / Travis Lupick.
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Lupick, Travis, 1985- author.
Vancouver : Arsenal Pulp Press, [2017]
Subjects
Drug addicts -- British Columbia -- Vancouver -- Social conditions.
Drug addicts -- Health and hygiene -- British Columbia -- Vancouver.
Drug addicts -- Civil rights -- British Columbia -- Vancouver.
Drug addicts -- Political activity -- British Columbia -- Vancouver.
Drug addicts -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- British Columbia -- Vancouver.
Drug addiction -- Treatment -- British Columbia -- Vancouver.
Drug addiction -- British Columbia -- Vancouver -- Prevention.
Opioid abuse -- British Columbia -- Vancouver.
Drug addiction -- British Columbia -- Vancouver.
ISBN:
9781551527123 (paperback) :
155152712X (paperback) :
Description:
407 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Contents:
Toledo, Ohio -- Hundred block rock -- A chance encounter -- Hotel of last resort -- Rat park -- Growing up radical -- Back alley -- Miami, Florida -- The killing field -- A drug-users union -- Out of harm's way -- From housing to harm reduction -- Childhood trauma and the science of addiction -- Raleigh, North Carolina -- A drug dealer finds activism -- Taking the fight to city hall -- Building allies -- Rewriting the brain for addiction -- The Vancouver agreement -- Boston, Massachusetts -- The hair salon -- Establishing Insite -- Opening day -- Consequences -- Seattle, Washington -- Drug user with a lawyer -- Protests across Canada -- Court battle -- Crossing a line -- Sacramento, California -- Prescription heroin -- "The assassination" -- Fentanyl arrives.
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Summary:
Tells the story of a grassroots group of addicts in downtown Vancouver who throughout the 1990s and 2000s demanded that they be given the same rights as other citizens.
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Hawaii State Library
Social Science & Philosophy
362.29097 Lu
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Adult Nonfiction
362.29097 Lu
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