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Drug Users with a Lawyer
From: Fighting For Space
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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 quintessential part of the fight for harm reduction. He founded Pivot, a litigation agency working for the marginalized people.
Contributors
Travis Lupick
Travis Lupick is an award-winning journalist based in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. He has more than a decade's experience working as a staff reporter for the Georgia Straight newspaper and has also written about drug addiction, harm reduction, and mental health for the Toronto Star, the Walrus, and Al Jazeera English, among other outlets. For his reporting on Canada's opioid crisis, Lupick received the Canadian Association of Journalists' Don McGillivray Award for best overall investigative report of 2016 and two 2017 Jack Webster awards for excellence in B.C. journalism. He has also worked as a journalist in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Malawi, Nepal, Bhutan, Peru, and Honduras.
