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Miami, Florida
From: Fighting For Space
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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 was no longer a problem confined to Miami and the state’s other urban areas. This chapter highlights the extent to which drugs are easier to get than addiction services. Needle exchange remains controversial, and the idea of a supervised-injection facility is not even being discussed. Until Dr. Hansel Tookes took the initiative and kick-started the IDEA Exchange (Infectious Disease Elimination Act) in Miami.
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.
