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The Vancouver Agreement
From: Fighting For Space
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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 comprehensive way of looking at addiction, treating drug abuse as a public health issue and not a criminal issue. This agreement was crucial in laying the groundwork for Vancouver’s next policy move on harm reduction. The chapter also talks about the making of the documentary, Fix: The Story of an Addicted City.
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.
