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).
In 1986, HIV/AIDS was burning through New York. The city’s gay population was devastated, and, though it was talked about…
Jack Shuler watched the overdose crisis take a heavy toll on his hometown of Newark, Ohio. It was terrible and…
Place Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law together on a street corner in an impoverished neighborhood and they’ll see examples of…
The overdose crisis has finally reached California, following a relative delay in the arrival of fentanyl there which I described…
The pandemic is taking a toll on people’s mental health, and there’s likely no group more affected than people who…
Through the 1970s, Nicholas Kristof rode the Number 6 bus to school with Donna King, the Knapp’s five children, and…
Roughly 66 times every single day in British Columbia, someone calls 911 for a suspected drug overdose. And 66 times…
A common misconception about people who use heroin is that they all want to get as high as possible, that…
On the edge of Shanghai, men wearing balaclavas meet journalist Ben Westhoff at sunset. He’s blindfolded, pushed into a pickup…
The crisis of opioid-related deaths extends throughout North America. Similar to cities across the United States, Vancouver, Canada, is flooded…