Light up the night : America's overdose crisis and the drug users fighting for survival / Travis Lup...
Light up the night : America's overdose crisis and the drug users fighting for survival / Travis Lup...
Light up the night : America's overdose crisis and the drug users fighting for survival / Travis Lupick.
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Publisher
New York : The New Press, [2022]
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G 2021/3024
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Language
English
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Physical content
xiii, 273 pages ; 22 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Prelude -- Tough love -- Trauma was my gateway drug -- A moment of need -- A safe space for people who use drugs -- The Wright Focus Group -- A drug-user union of one -- All practice up to now -- A period of calm -- The Urban Survivors Union -- Strange dope on the street -- Narco feminism -- Blow th...
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Publisher
New York : The New Press, [2022]
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
[2022]
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Summary
"A revelatory, moving narrative that offers a harrowing critique of the war on drugs from voices seldom heard in the conversation: drug users who are working on the front lines to reduce overdose deaths"-- Provided by publisher.
In the 1990s, pharmaceutical corporations flooded America with powerful narcotics while lying about their risk. Many patients developed addictions to prescription opioids; then, as access was restricted, waves of people turned to the streets and began using heroin and, later, the dangerous synthetic opioid fentanyl. Lupick shows how this story fail...
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Light up the night : America's overdose crisis and the drug users fighting for survival / Travis Lupick.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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©2022
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G 2021/3024
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74VKarWqDNWX
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKarWqDNWX
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ISBN
1620976382
9781620976388
DDC
362.290973
MMS ID
991024444018102626
