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Light Up the Night - America's Overdose Crisis and the Drug Users Fighting for Survival (Hardcover)
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Light Up the Night - America's Overdose Crisis and the Drug Users Fighting for Survival (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R595
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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.
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