Title Fighting for space : how a group of drug users transformed one city's struggle with addiction / Travis Lupick.

Publication Info.	Vancouver : Arsenal Pulp Press, [2017]
	©2017

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Description	1 online resource (407 pages ): illustrations, map.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary	Tells the story of a grassroots group of addicts in downtown Vancouver who throughout the 1990s and 2000s demanded that they be given the same rights as other citizens.
Contents	Toledo, Ohio -- Hundred block rock -- A chance encounter -- Hotel of last resort -- Rat park -- Growing up radical -- Back alley -- Miami, Florida -- The killing field -- A drug-users union -- Out of harm's way -- From housing to harm reduction -- Childhood trauma and the science of addiction -- Raleigh, North Carolina -- A drug dealer finds activism -- Taking the fight to city hall -- Building allies -- Rewriting the brain for addiction -- The Vancouver agreement -- Boston, Massachusetts -- The hair salon -- Establishing Insite -- Opening day -- Consequences -- Seattle, Washington -- Drug user with a lawyer -- Protests across Canada -- Court battle -- Crossing a line -- Sacramento, California -- Prescription heroin -- "The assassination" -- Fentanyl arrives.
Note	Description based on print version record.
Subject	Drug addicts -- British Columbia -- Vancouver -- Social conditions.
	Drug addicts -- Health and hygiene -- British Columbia -- Vancouver.
	Drug addicts -- Civil rights -- British Columbia -- Vancouver.
	Drug addicts -- Political activity -- British Columbia -- Vancouver.
	Drug addicts -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- British Columbia -- Vancouver.
	Drug addiction -- Treatment -- British Columbia -- Vancouver.
	Drug addiction -- British Columbia -- Vancouver -- Prevention.
	Opioid abuse -- British Columbia -- Vancouver.
	Drug addiction -- British Columbia -- Vancouver.
	Drug Users.
	Drug Users -- legislation & jurisprudence.
	Hygiene.
	Civil Rights.
	Politics.
	Substance-Related Disorders -- therapy.
	British Columbia.
	Drug addiction. (OCoLC)fst01430217
	Drug addiction -- Prevention. (OCoLC)fst01430226
	Drug addiction -- Treatment. (OCoLC)fst01430233
	Drug addicts -- Civil rights. (OCoLC)fst01430251
	Drug addicts -- Health and hygiene. (OCoLC)fst01430264
	Drug addicts -- Legal status, laws, etc. (OCoLC)fst01430270
	Drug addicts -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01430290
	Opioid abuse. (OCoLC)fst01430929
	British Columbia -- Vancouver. (OCoLC)fst01211882
Other Form:	Lupick, Travis, 1985-, author. Fighting for space.: Vancouver, British Columbia : Arsenal Pulp Press, 2017. (CaOONL)20179040391
	Original 9781551527123 155152712X (DLC) 2017491732 (OCoLC)1005092569
ISBN	9781551527130 (electronic bk.)
	1551527138 (electronic bk.)

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