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Journalist, author. "Light Up the Night: America's Overdose Crisis and the Drug Users Fighting for Survival" (2022). "Fighting for Space" (2018). 💉💊🚬

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Travis Lupick’s Biography

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Travis Lupick is an award-winning journalist based in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside and the author of "Fighting for Space: How a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City’s Struggle with Addiction." He works 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 and Al Jazeera English, among other outlets. For his reporting on Canada’s opioid crisis, Lupick received the Canadian Association of Journ…

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If They Die of an Overdose, Drug Users Have a Last Request

If They Die of an Overdose, Drug Users Have a Last Request

Thousands of drug users across the country signed their names to a sort of last will and testament, requestin…

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Opioid refugees: How the fentanyl crisis led to a backlash against doctors that's leaving people ...

Opioid refugees: How the fentanyl crisis led to a backlash against doctors that's leaving people ...

North of the border, many people believe that the opioid crisis is playing out the same as in the U.S. This h…

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The Secret Housing Program Giving Safe Drugs to Addicted Residents

The Secret Housing Program Giving Safe Drugs to Addicted Residents

Vancouver’s Portland Hotel Society has been quietly running an opioid substitution program for more than a ye…

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Decriminalization doesn't go far enough

Decriminalization doesn't go far enough

Canada needs a new battle plan for its fight against overdose deaths.

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As the fentanyl crisis continues, one Vancouver doctor moves people out of the alleys and into a ...

As the fentanyl crisis continues, one Vancouver doctor moves people out of the alleys and into a ...

At Crosstown Clinic, there are virtually no overdoses. The patients enrolled there don’t wake up in a panic e…

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Our Fentanyl Crisis

Our Fentanyl Crisis

A shadow health-care system is saving lives in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.

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Articles

3 Tennessee Teens Overdosed and 2 Died. Now the Survivor Is Charged With Murder.

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By Mike Ludwig Verified, Travis Lupick, Zane McNeill, Tamar Sarai Verified
| Truthout Verified
An estimated 109,680 people died of a drug overdose in 2022. Police and policy makers at all levels of government spent billions of dollars over the past decade attempting to contain this crisis, but 2022 saw the highest death toll on record, with fatalities exceeding 100,000 for the second year in a row. Social stigma and police push drug use out of view. Every death is a human being and their story, a dark space where personal tragedy and public policy collide.
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The US Finally Removes a Major Barrier to Opioid Addiction Treatment

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By Mike Ludwig Verified, Travis Lupick, Michael Thomas Klare Verified, Kenny Stancil
| Truthout Verified
In a major victory for public health and the harm reduction movement, the Biden administration is touting changes to federal drug law that removed a major barrier to accessing buprenorphine, a standard medication for treating opioid dependence and addiction that is crucial for preventing overdose deaths.
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For a Healthier Society, Ditch the Myth of Normal - Bioneers

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By Travis Lupick
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This article was originally published in Yes! Magazine and is licensed under Creative Commons. BY TRAVIS LUPICK A typical American life in 2022 might include spending 50 hours a week mostly alone in a cubicle, riddled with chronic stress but on track for a promotion. Evenings pass isolated in a tower, where a doorman ensures strangers and even neighbors are kept at bay. You swipe down into the bowels of Instagram until you fall asleep.
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Awards

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George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature

2018 - Non-fiction
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Canadian Association of Journalists Don McGillivray Award for best overall investigative report

2017 - Investigative journalism
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Canadian Association of Journalists Award for Community Media

2017 - Community journalism
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Jack Webster Award for Feature/Enterprise Reporting, Print

2017 - Enterprise reporting (print)
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Jack Webster Award for Feature/Enterprise Reporting, Radio

2017 - Enterprise reporting (radio)
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Jack Webster Award for Legal Journalism

2015 - Legal journalism