Home & Community Care
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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 |
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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 |
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From  A New NormalFrom: The Accidental Caregiver |
In this chapter, Fraser follows a Nova Scotia family’s experience with primary progressive multiple sclerosis, beginning with the father’s diagnosis in 1980. | Kimberly Fraser | 11 | 2022 | $1.10 Add |
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From A Sense of SelfFrom: The Accidental Caregiver |
In this chapter, Fraser examines how family caregivers gradually lose their sense of identity while tending to another person. | Kimberly Fraser | 17 | 2022 | $1.70 Add |
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From  NEW! Allice Legat, YellowknifeFrom: Book of Hope |
In this chapter, Allice Legat recounts her 2018 stage 4 lung cancer diagnosis and the immunotherapy years that followed in Yellowknife and Edmonton. | Agnes R. Pascal | 11 | 2025 | $1.10 Add |
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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 |
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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 Change, Loss, and GriefFrom: The Accidental Caregiver |
In this chapter, Fraser examines anticipatory grief and the cyclical nature of loss experienced by family caregivers over decades of care. | Kimberly Fraser | 28 | 2022 | $2.80 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 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 |
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From  Disruptive Innovation 2: Connecting Medical Education to Societal NeedsFrom: The Doctors We Need |
In this chapter, Sanfilippo examines the mismatches between how medical education is structured and the actual needs of community-based family medicine. | Anthony Sanfilippo | 5 | 2024 | $0.50 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 EpilogueFrom: Fighting For Space |
How did a group mostly composed of unemployed heroin users change the face of Canadian drug policy and health-care for addiction? It was not easy. | Travis Lupick | 21 | 2017 | $0.42 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 Fentanyl ArrivesFrom: Fighting For Space |
Since 2011, there has been a spike in drug overdose deaths in Vancouver. Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid is ten time stronger than heroin and fifty times more potent than morphine. The fight goes on. | Travis Lupick | 28 | 2017 | $0.56 Add |
