Light Up the Night
America's Overdose Crisis and the Drug Users Fighting for Survival
New York : The New Press, [2022]
Format: Book
Description: xiii, 273 pages ; 22 cm
"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.
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.
Subjects:
Drug abuse -- United States.
Harm reduction -- United States.
Drug addiction -- Treatment -- United States.
Drug addicts -- Health and hygiene -- United States.
Narcotics -- Overdose -- United States -- Prevention.
Drug abuse -- United States.
Harm reduction -- United States.
Drug addiction -- Treatment -- United States.
Drug addicts -- Health and hygiene -- United States.
Narcotics -- Overdose -- United States -- Prevention.
ISBN:
9781620976388
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
HEALTH Addiction Lup | St. Andrews Indoors | Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references.