Mental Health
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From  A Drug Dealer Finds ActivismFrom: Fighting For Space |
This chapter throws light on the life of Dean Wilson who was dubbed “Canada’s most famous junkie”. Wilson joined the burgeoning team at PHS and worked alongside Livingston and … | Travis Lupick | 22 | 2017 | $0.44 Add |
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From  Index |
- | James Pardy | 7 | 2019 | $0.70 Add |
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From Credits |
- | James Pardy | 1 | 2019 | $0.10 Add |
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From Taking the Fight to City HallFrom: Fighting For Space |
The trailblazing activists continued their work in Downtown Eastside. This chapter highlights the demonstration, led by Dean Wilson in 2000, where VANDU confronted Mayor Philip Owen at the City … | Travis Lupick | 31 | 2017 | $0.93 Add |
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From Building AlliesFrom: Fighting For Space |
After repeatedly hitting a wall when it came to better government support for harm reduction, the Downtown Eastside activists strategically started seeking allies. The residents of the affluent … | Travis Lupick | 28 | 2017 | $0.56 Add |
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From Rewiring the Brain for AddictionFrom: Fighting For Space |
Marc Lewis, the author of The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction is Not a Disease, visits Downtown Eastside and lays out an argument for addiction as a learned habit. Lewis argues that the choice … | Travis Lupick | 19 | 2017 | $0.19 Add |
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From The Vancouver AgreementFrom: Fighting For Space |
This chapter highlights the formation Vancouver Caucus, comprising of Mayor Philip Owen, Jenny Kwan and Dr Hedy Fry, and the subsequent signing of the Vancouver Agreement. The agreement about a … | Travis Lupick | 27 | 2017 | $0.54 Add |
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From Boston, MassachusettsFrom: Fighting For Space |
Boston has a "Methadone Mile", a stretch in the city’s South End where needles litter the ground. Police tolerate the open drug use because to do otherwise would be futile. In … | Travis Lupick | 19 | 2017 | $0.19 Add |
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From The Hair SalonFrom: Fighting For Space |
Despite the non-support of the sitting mayor of Vancouver, VANDU and PHS members persevered with a single-mindedness – to open a supervised injection site for the drug users of Downtown … | Travis Lupick | 28 | 2017 | $0.56 Add |
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From Establishing InsiteFrom: Fighting For Space |
The new Mayor of Vancouver finally gave in to the demands of the Downtown Eastside activists and the groundwork for “Insite” was laid. This chapter talks about the logistics of … | Travis Lupick | 28 | 2017 | $0.56 Add |
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From Opening DayFrom: Fighting For Space |
This heartwarming chapter outlines the opening day of Insite. Vacouver was now home to one-of-a-kind facility in North American continent whose sole purpose was harm reduction and better living … | Travis Lupick | 23 | 2017 | $0.46 Add |
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From ConsequencesFrom: Fighting For Space |
The aftermath of opening Insite. | Travis Lupick | 17 | 2017 | $0.17 Add |
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From Drug Users with a LawyerFrom: Fighting For Space |
John Richardson was a young lawyer facing an existential crisis. He found solace in Downtown Eastside, having been deeply moved by the dilapidated condition of drug users. He became a … | Travis Lupick | 21 | 2017 | $0.42 Add |
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From Protests across CanadaFrom: Fighting For Space |
Even though Insite became operational, the activists knew they were on borrowed time as the continuity of this project was in the tenuous hands of the changing government. Keeping this in mind, … | Travis Lupick | 32 | 2017 | $0.96 Add |
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From Court BattleFrom: Fighting For Space |
For four years, the Conservative administration had made it increasingly difficult for Insite to obtain annual exemptions from drug laws that it requires to operate. By 2007, it was clear that … | Travis Lupick | 24 | 2017 | $0.48 Add |
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From Crossing a LineFrom: Fighting For Space |
In early 2012, the regional health authority that funded Insite revealed it would soon cut funding for the Rainier Hotel, a housing project that benefited from on-site treatment programs for its … | Travis Lupick | 27 | 2017 | $0.54 Add |
