No Police at Overdoses
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In No Police at Overdoses illustrators nicole marie burton and Hugh D. A. Goldring examine the overdose crisis in Canada. The chapter explores how, through the use of police to address overdose calls, victims are often made to feel like criminals and have to face potential criminalization when seeking medical help. The chapter discusses the need to reassess how we address overdoes, the ongoing opioid crisis, the decriminalize of drug possession, safe supply, and more.
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nicole marie burton
nicole marie burton is a comic book and children’s book illustrator based in Ontario. With over a decade of experience in activist art and design, she is a founding member of the Ad Astra Comix publishing collective, which specializes in comics with social justice themes. Her published work includes The Beast: Making a Living on a Dying Planet, The Boy Who Walked Backwards, Wonder Drug, and a chapter in the anthology Drawn to Change: Graphic Histories of Working-Class Struggle.
Hugh D. A. Goldring
Hugh D. A. Goldring is a writer from Ottawa, Ontario, Algonquin territory. As one half of Petroglyph Studios, he works full-time writing comics with social justice themes in partnership with scholars, unions, activists and NGOs. He is part of the Ad Astra Comix publishing collective, which published his first graphic novel, The Beast: Making a Living on a Dying Planet. He was active in the Occupy movement and has been involved in several Food Not Bombs chapters. He has spent the last five years travelling across the United States, visiting with antifascists, migrant rights activists, and anti-capitalists, trying vainly to make sense of it all.