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Fighting for space : how a group of drug users transformed one city's struggle with addiction

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    Publisher:
    Arsenal Pulp Press, 2017

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  • Author: Lupick, Travis
    Date:
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    2017
    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.

    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.
    Genre:
    Canadian nonfiction, Political science, Social science
    Subject(s): Civil rights | Drug Addiction | Drug addicts | Health and hygiene | Legal status, laws, etc | Opioid abuse | Prevention | Social conditions | Treatment
    Original Publisher: Vancouver, British Columbia, Arsenal Pulp Press
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781551527130, 1551527138