Travis Lupick

    Travis is a journalist based in Vancouver and the author of “Fighting for Space: How a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City’s Struggle with Addiction” (Arsenal Pulp Press, June 2018).

    “Undoing Drugs”—Maia Szalavitz’s Profound History of Harm Reduction

    In 1986, HIV/AIDS was burning through New York. The city’s gay population was devastated, ...

    Cages Don’t Always Have Bars: How “Reforms” Swelled the Carceral State

    Place Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law together on a street corner in an impoverished ...

    California’s Huge Overdose Increase Didn’t Have to Happen 

    The overdose crisis has finally reached California, following a relative delay in the arrival ...

    Harm Reduction Works: An Exciting New Alternative to Narcotics Anonymous

    The pandemic is taking a toll on people’s mental health, and there’s likely no ...

    Tightrope: A Powerful But Problematic Deaths-of-Despair Narrative

    Through the 1970s, Nicholas Kristof rode the Number 6 bus to school with Donna ...

    Why Overdose Deaths Have Fallen Here—Despite More Overdoses

    Roughly 66 times every single day in British Columbia, someone calls 911 for a ...

    Heroin Pipes: How the “Hammer” Was Built for Harm Reduction

    A common misconception about people who use heroin is that they all want to ...

    Fentanyl, Inc: How Corporate Sales Floors Dominate the New Drugs Market

    On the edge of Shanghai, men wearing balaclavas meet journalist Ben Westhoff at sunset. ...

    Heroin Buyers Clubs Proposed by Researchers to Reduce Overdose

    The crisis of opioid-related deaths extends throughout North America. Similar to cities across the ...

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