Light Up the Night: America's Overdose Crisis and the Drug Users Fighting for Survival

A revelatory, moving narrative that offers a harrowing critique of the war on drugs from voices seldom...
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Author: Travis Lupick
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Language: English
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Light Up the Night: America's Overdose Crisis and the Drug Users Fighting for Survival by Lupick, Travis

Light Up the Night: America's Overdose Crisis and the Drug Users Fighting for Survival

Dhs. 152.14

Light Up the Night: America's Overdose Crisis and the Drug Users Fighting for Survival

Dhs. 152.14
Author: Travis Lupick
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

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

Media coverage has established a clear narrative of the overdose crisis: In the 1990s, pharmaceutical corporations flooded America with powerful narcotics while lying about their risk; many patients developed addictions to prescription opioids; then, as access was restricted, waves of people turned to the streets and began using heroin and, later, the dangerous synthetic opioid fentanyl.

But that's not the whole story. It fails to acknowledge how the war on drugs has exacerbated the crisis and leaves out one crucial voice: that of drug users themselves.

Across the country, people who use drugs are organizing in response to a record number of overdose deaths. They are banding together to save lives and demanding equal rights. Set against the backdrop of the overdose crisis, Light Up the Night provides an intimate look at how users navigate the policies that criminalize them. It chronicles a rising movement that's fighting to save lives, end stigma, and inspire commonsense policy reform.

Told through embedded reporting focused on two activists, Jess Tilley in Massachusetts and Louise Vincent in North Carolina, this is the story of the courageous people stepping in where government has failed. They are standing on the front lines of an underground effort to help people with addictions use drugs safely, reduce harms, and live with dignity.



Author: Travis Lupick
Publisher: New Press
Published: 01/04/2022
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.70w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9781620976388


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/25/2021
Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2021
Foreword 12/27/2021

About the Author
Travis Lupick is an award-winning journalist who has written for the Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, VICE magazine, Toronto Star, and the Globe and Mail, among others. The author of Fighting for Space: How a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City's Struggle with Addiction, he lives in Santa Barbara, California.

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