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Join Tasha Simms and Marc Caron as they speak with Travis Lupick, an award-winning journalist who has written for the Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, and VICE magazine, among others. Today we discuss his new book, ” Light Up the Night: America’s Overdose Crisis and the Drug Users Fighting for Survival” . It’s about the overdose crisis, the war on drugs, and finding harm reduction solutions, told through the eyes of two of the most amazing women he’s ever met.
“People always think recovery is either you’re completely abstinent or you’re in full chaotic use, and there is a world in between.” —Jess Tilley, president of the New England Users Union.
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.
Here’s where you can buy the book and find more info:
Book details: https://tlupick.com/lightupthenight/
Amazon .com: https://amzn.to/3gwFpS0
Amazon .ca: https://amzn.to/2WmFTn4
Bookshop: https://bit.ly/3kmAAvI
Here’s what people are saying in early reviews:
“Through the lenses of two heroic women on the front lines of America’s drug war, Lupick has written a masterful, propulsive book about the overdose crisis, full of heart, humanity, and hope.” — Beth Macy, author, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America
“Anyone who cares about addiction should read this profound, beautiful, and inspiring book. Travis is one of the best writers on this subject, and this is a story everyone needs to hear.” — Johann Hari, author, Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs
“The book’s greatest strength is the intimate portrait of two indomitable women who have dedicated their lives to helping others. This is a must-read for those on the front lines of the opioid crisis.” — Publisher Weekly
“On the topic of drugs, I trust Travis Lupick more than any other journalist. He details the heroic efforts of everyday people fighting to save the lives of those deemed expendable. We learn that failed governmental drug policies, not drugs, are killing us, and what we can do about it. Please read this book.” — Dr. Carl Hart, author, Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear
“Travis Lupick is reporting from the front lines of the opioid epidemic like no other journalist out there. Rather than parrot the talking points of politicians or police, he’s given a megaphone to people who use drugs. This book offers invaluable advice on the overdose crisis.” — Sean Baker, writer and director, The Florida Project; and Red Rocket
“The author’s riveting profile of two ‘heroes walking among us’ serves as a hopeful perspective on an enduringly grave predicament that is only getting worse. Potent, illuminating reportage on a public health crisis of epidemic proportions.” — Kirkus Reviews
“Gripping, vividly told dispatches from the front lines of drug addiction. A true antidote to the insanity of the drug war and to punitive approaches to human suffering.” — Dr. Gabor Maté, author, In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction
If you do read the book and you like it, it would be hugely appreciated if you would leave a short review on Amazon or even just give it a rating. That feedback means a lot to the search algorithms there. On Goodreads and other places like that, too.
About Travis Lupick
Travis Lupick is an award-winning journalist who has written for the Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, and VICE magazine, among others. The author of Fighting for Space: How a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City’s Struggle with Addiction and Light Up the Night: America’s Overdose Crisis and the Drug Users Fighting for Survival (The New Press), he lives in Southern California.
Twitter: twitter.com/tlupick
Facebook: facebook.com/tlupick
Read about my books: tlupick.com
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Tasha Simms M.A. M.P.C.A
Tasha is a Registered Professional Counsellor and holds a Masters degree in Counselling Psychology. Her private practice is in downtown Vancouver where she works with both couples and individuals. www.AuthenticSelfCounselling.com
Tasha loves designing and facilitating personal growth workshops for diverse groups and businesses. She weaves her skills as a working actor, writer and motivational speaker with her creative, body centered therapeutic approach to teach passionate expression and acceptance of the Authentic Self. Her focus on healthy communication and conscious leadership inspires individuals, couples and organizations to be the best they can be and flourish.
Trained in a variety of disciplines including Family Systems Theory, Gestalt, as well as cognitive and Psycho/Spiritual orientations, she has been practicing the principles of A Course in Miracles for over 20 years. She is known as a mentor with integrity who has taught many individuals as well as counsellors, locally and internationally to embrace their birthright of a life of passionate purpose, joyfully human yet in perfect alignment with their spirit. As a certified Master Neuro Linguistic Programming facilitator trained in body work, energy healing and hypnotherapy, her contribution to support this integration is an audio series called Body Awareness Training.
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The training includes a sensory meditation designed to wake up feelings in the body, encourage self –knowledge and acceptance and also to invite a deep experience of the Divine Essence that is at the core of us all. Tasha’s curiosity, compassion and juicy celebration of life are just some of the gifts she brings to her commitment to be of service.
Her history in radio makes co-hosting at Conscious Living Radio feel like coming home. Tasha was one of the first female DJ’s on-air in Canada in the mid-day spot in rock n roll radio at Q-107 FM Toronto.
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