Light up the night : America's overdose crisis and the drug users fighting for survival
(2022)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
362.290973/LUPICK,T

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Adult Nonfiction 362.290973/LUPICK,T Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : The New Press, [2022]
DESCRIPTION

xiii, 273 pages ; 22 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781620976388, 1620976382 :, 1620976382, 9781620976388
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

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

"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"--