# Travis Lupick
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travis lupick is a Canadian journalist and author. Lupick has worked as a staff reporter for The Georgia Straight and as a freelance reporter for the Toronto Star, and Al Jazeera English, among others.Lupick is best known for his local reporting on the Downtown Eastside neighborhood of Vancouver and how the North American opioid epidemic has disproportionately affected the people who live there. The reporting has focused on initiatives led by community activists, such as naloxone distribution and unsanctioned overdose prevention sites, and often leads with the voices of people who use drugs.
Seeking To Reduce Harm - Nathaniel Erskin-Smith, Member of Parliament for Beaches-East York
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The following podcast is the final in this series. Member of Parliament Nathaniel Erskin-Smith shares with us his engagement in harm reduction and decriminalization from within the government in power as a member of the Liberal Party of Canada. He shares with us his experienc…
Travis Lupick, "Fighting for Space: How a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City’s Struggle with Addiction" (Arsenal, 2108)
North America is in the grips of a drug epidemic; with the introduction of fentanyl, the chances of a fatal overdose are greater than ever, prompting many to rethink the war on drugs. Public opinion has slowly begun to turn against prohibition, and policy-makers are finally beginning to look at add…
S3 EP4 What happens when you give drug users drugs?
In Vancouver’s East Hastings, the Safe Supply program challenges the conventional narrative that sobriety is the ultimate goal. Geoff visits the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users office to sit down with Garth Mullins, an advocate and organizer. This episode explores harm reduction, examining how…
Dr. Joe Wright & Allyson Pinkhover, Learning from Hamsterdams: How Zoning, Real Estate, and Public Policy Create Drug Containment Zones
We don’t have a drug crisis—we have a policy crisis.
In episode one, Allyson Pinkhover, MPH, CPhT, CHO and Dr. Joe Wright explore some of the ways that urban planning, zoning, policing, and the location of addiction services combine to create or enforce a geography of containment. In Boston, Wrigh…
Part One: Harm Reduction: The Direct Action Movement that Changed How We Understand Addiction
Margaret tells you the story of the punks, hippies, and poets in Vancouver, Canada who pioneered the modern harm reduction movement
Sources:
Fighting for Space, Travis Lupick (https://firestorm.coop/products/11537-fighting-for-space.html?referral=killjoy)https://www.addictionresource.net/heroin/t…
Part Two: Harm Reduction: The Direct Action Movement that Changed How We Understand Addiction
Margaret continues telling you the story of the punks, hippies, and poets in Vancouver, Canada who pioneered the modern harm reduction movement
Sources:
Fighting for Space, Travis Lupick (https://firestorm.coop/products/11537-fighting-for-space.html?referral=killjoy)https://www.addictionresource.…
Part Three: Harm Reduction: The Direct Action Movement that Changed How We Understand Addiction
Margaret goes deeper into the story of the punks, hippies, and poets in Vancouver, Canada who pioneered the modern harm reduction movement
Sources:
Fighting for Space, Travis Lupick (https://firestorm.coop/products/11537-fighting-for-space.html?referral=killjoy)https://www.addictionresource.net/…
Part Four: Harm Reduction: The Direct Action Movement that Changed How We Understand Addiction
In part four of this series, Margaret tells you more about the story of the punks, hippies, and poets in Vancouver, Canada who pioneered the modern harm reduction movement
Sources:
Fighting for Space, Travis Lupick (https://firestorm.coop/products/11537-fighting-for-space.html?referral=killjoy)ht…
Part Five: Harm Reduction: The Direct Action Movement that Changed How We Understand Addiction
Margaret resumes telling you the story of the punks, hippies, and poets in Vancouver, Canada who pioneered the modern harm reduction movement
Sources:
Fighting for Space, Travis Lupick (https://firestorm.coop/products/11537-fighting-for-space.html?referral=killjoy)https://www.addictionresource.ne…
Part Six: Harm Reduction: The Direct Action Movement that Changed How We Understand Addiction
Margaret concludes the story of the punks, hippies, and poets in Vancouver, Canada who pioneered the modern harm reduction movement
Sources:
Fighting for Space, Travis Lupick (https://firestorm.coop/products/11537-fighting-for-space.html?referral=killjoy)https://www.addictionresource.net/heroin/t…
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