Title: Fighting for Space
Description: "While deaths across the continent soar, Travis Lupick's Fighting for Space explains the concept of harm reduction as a crucial component of a city's response to the crisis. 

It tells the story of a grassroots group of addicts in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside who waged a political street fight for two decades to transform how the city treats its most marginalized citizens. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, this group of residents from Canada's poorest neighbourhood organized themselves in response to a growing number of overdose deaths and demanded that addicts be given the same rights as any other citizen; against all odds, they eventually won." --Front flap.
Subjects: Drug abuse, Drug abuse and crime, Drug addicts, Vancouver (b.c.), politics and government, Social conditions, Health and hygiene, Civil rights, Political activity, Legal status, laws, Drug addiction, Treatment, Prevention, Opioid abuse, Drug Users, Legislation & jurisprudence, Hygiene, Politics, Substance-Related Disorders, Therapy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban
Places: Vancouver, BC
People: Bud Osborn, Ann Livingston, VANDU, Mark Townsend, Portland Hotel Society
Time periods: 1990s, 2000s