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Author:
Lupick, Travis, 1985- author.
Title:
Light up the night : America's overdose crisis and the drug users fighting for survival / Travis Lupick.
Publisher:
The New Press,
Copyright Date:
2022
Description:
xiii, 273 pages ; 22 cm
Subject:
Drug abuse--United States.
Harm reduction--United States.
Drug addiction--Treatment--United States.
Drug addicts--Health and hygiene--United States.
Narcotics--Prevention.--United States--Prevention.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
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 the System Up -- Harm Reduction Works -- Light Up the Night -- Drug-Induced Homicide -- Reframe the Blame -- A Labor of Radical Love -- Methadone in the Time of COVID -- Creating Space.
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.
ISBN:
1620976382
9781620976388
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1252962309
LCCN:
2021037501
Locations:
UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)
BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

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