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

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  • Author: Lupick, Travis
    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
    Original Publisher: Vancouver, British Columbia , Arsenal Pulp Press
    Language(s): English
    ISBN:

    9781551527130

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    1551527138

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Abstract

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.

Genre
Canadian nonfiction
Political science
Social science
Publisher (Source)

Vancouver, British Columbia

Arsenal Pulp Press

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