Travis Lupick
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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Fighting For SpaceHow a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City's Struggle with Addiction |
North America is in the grips of a drug epidemic. While deaths across the continent soar, Travis Lupick’s Fighting for Space explains the concept of harm reduction as a crucial component of … | Travis Lupick | 408 | 2017 | View |
From IntroductionFrom: Fighting For Space |
In America today, overdose deaths are the highest they have ever been. Heroin has reached the middle class and suburban America. At the same time, public opinion has turned against the war on … | Travis Lupick | 18 | 2017 | $0.18 Add |
From Toledo, OhioFrom: Fighting For Space |
The city of Toledo, Ohio, wakes up to a growing ‘public health crisis’. In 2014, over a thousand people died of heroin-related overdoses in the state of Ohio. A disproportionate … | Travis Lupick | 20 | 2017 | $0.40 Add |
From Hundred Block RockFrom: Fighting For Space |
In the 1990s and early 2000s, Bud Osborn was part of a grassroots group of addicts who transformed how the City of Vancouver treats people addicted to drugs. He helped pioneer North … | Travis Lupick | 25 | 2017 | $0.50 Add |
From A Chance EncounterFrom: Fighting For Space |
This chapter retraces the early years of activists Liz Evans and Mark Townsend. Also the inception of The Portland Hotel at Downtown Eastside in Vancouver, which later evolved into PHS Community … | Travis Lupick | 22 | 2017 | $0.44 Add |
From Hotel of Last ResortFrom: Fighting For Space |
In 1993, Liz Evans and Mark Townsend were trying to secure housing for some of the neighbourhood’s most difficult tenants. A community ravaged by drug abuse and disease that every level of … | Travis Lupick | 34 | 2017 | $1.02 Add |
From Rat ParkFrom: Fighting For Space |
This chapter highlights the research done by experimental psychologists since the 1960s in the addiction studies. Taking Skinner’s Box and juxta positioning it against the Rat Park … | Travis Lupick | 23 | 2017 | $0.46 Add |
From Growing Up RadicalFrom: Fighting For Space |
This chapter introduces Ann Livingston. A single mother on welfare, Livingston moved to the Downtown Eastside with her three boys in 1993, and was moved to act by the sight of people shooting up … | Travis Lupick | 20 | 2017 | $0.40 Add |
From Back AlleyFrom: Fighting For Space |
By 1996, the fight for government-funded harm-reduction services was just beginning. Residents of the Downtown Eastside had to fight for a simple recognition of their existence. With overdose … | Travis Lupick | 32 | 2017 | $0.96 Add |
From Miami, FloridaFrom: Fighting For Space |
In 2015, Manatee County saw heroin kill more people than any other jurisdiction in Florida, a state that’s been hit particularly hard by the drug’s arrival to Middle American. Heroin … | Travis Lupick | 19 | 2017 | $0.19 Add |
From The Killing FieldsFrom: Fighting For Space |
By the late 1990s, drug overdoses, HIV/AIDS, and an outbreak of hepatitis C were collectively killing more than one person in the Downtown Eastside every single day. Desperate for attention from … | Travis Lupick | 28 | 2017 | $0.56 Add |
From A Drug-Users UnionFrom: Fighting For Space |
This chapter throws light on the early years of struggle and the subsequent formation of Vancouver Area Network Drug Users (VANDU). | Travis Lupick | 30 | 2017 | $0.90 Add |
From Out of Harm’s WayFrom: Fighting For Space |
This chapter highlights the first ever conference (Out of Harm’s Way) held in Vancouver for harm reduction. The primary thrust was providing stable housing options, educating general public … | Travis Lupick | 27 | 2017 | $0.54 Add |
From From Housing to Harm ReductionFrom: Fighting For Space |
This chapter highlights the synergy between VANDU and PHS as they grappled to establish basic facilities for the homeless population in Vancouver. Caught in the sparring between the health board … | Travis Lupick | 26 | 2017 | $0.52 Add |
From Childhood Trauma and the Science of AddictionFrom: Fighting For Space |
In 1998, Dr. Gabor Mate placed a lucrative career on hold and joined hands with Liz Evans, treating addicts in the Downtown Eastside. Mate’s eight years with the Portland Hotel meant … | Travis Lupick | 26 | 2017 | $0.52 Add |
From Raleigh, North CarolinaFrom: Fighting For Space |
This chapter throws light on the small town of Raleigh, North Carolina, where activists Robert Childs, Minister Michelle Mathis, Steve Daniels and many others worked around the law and came up … | Travis Lupick | 18 | 2017 | $0.18 Add |