PDF-[BOOK]-Fighting for Space: How a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City’s Struggle

The grassroots story of a revolutionary approach to drug addiction that is saving livesWhile North America is in the grips of a drug epidemic Fighting for Space explains the concept of harm reduction as a crucial component of a citys response to the crisisIt tells the story of a grassroots group of drug users in Vancouvers Downtown Eastside who waged a political street fight for two decades to transform how the city treats its most marginalized citizens Fighting for Space follows the lives of two womenLiz Evans who founded the Portland Hotel Society and Ann Livingston who cofounded the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Usersand the extraordinary lengths they went to help their community weather a crisisThroughout the 1990s and 2000s this group of residents from Canadas poorest neighbourhood organized themselves in response to a growing number of overdose deaths and demanded that addicts be given the same rights as any other citizenBut just as their battle came to an end fentanyl arrived and opioid deaths across North America reached an alltime highIts prompted many to rethink the war on drugs Public opinion has slowly begun to turn against prohibition and policymakers are finally beginning to look at addiction as a health issue as opposed to one for the criminal justice systemThe previous epidemic in Vancouver sparked government action Twenty years later as the same pattern plays out in other cities there is much that advocates for reform can learn from Vancouvers experience Fighting for Space tells that story with the same passionate fervor as the activists whose tireless work gave dignity to addicts and saved countless lives. 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