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Travis Lupick

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As seen in: Los Angeles Times, Al Jazeera English, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, VICE, San Francisco Chronicle, Truthout, AllAfrica, AlterNet, High Times and
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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If They Die of an Overdose, Drug Users Have a Last Request

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

YES! Magazine — Thousands of drug users across the country signed their names to a sort of last will and testament, requesting that prosecutors not file homicide charges against their loved ones.
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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 ...

Georgia Straight — North of the border, many people believe that the opioid crisis is playing out the same as in the U.S. This has left patients with real pain with nowhere to turn for the medicine they need, except maybe to the streets.
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The Secret Housing Program Giving Safe Drugs to Addicted Residents

The Secret Housing Program Giving Safe Drugs to Addicted Residents

Vice — Vancouver’s Portland Hotel Society has been quietly running an opioid substitution program for more than a year.
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Decriminalization doesn't go far enough

Decriminalization doesn't go far enough

The Globe and Mail — 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 ...

Georgia Straight — At Crosstown Clinic, there are virtually no overdoses. The patients enrolled there don’t wake up in a panic each morning not knowing where their next fix is coming from. They don’t need to steal or sell their bodies. The vast majority have found stable housing. They’ve left the street life behind them.
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Our Fentanyl Crisis

Our Fentanyl Crisis

The Walrus Magazine — A shadow health-care system is saving lives in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.
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How the worst overdose epidemic in Vancouver's history left the Downtown Eastside to fend for its...

How the worst overdose epidemic in Vancouver's history left the Downtown Eastside to fend for its...

Georgia Straight — Five years into an epidemic, and still with little help from authorities forthcoming, the neighbourhood mobilized to take care of itself.
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