{"product_id":"the-best-place-addiction-intervention-and-living-and-dying-young-in-vancouver-9781978834880","title":"The Best Place: Addiction, Intervention, and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn both local and international imaginations, Vancouver, Canada, is often celebrated as one of the world’s most beautiful, cosmopolitan, and livable cities. Simultaneously, the city continues to be ground zero for successive waves of public health emergency and intervention, including a recent and unprecedented drug overdose crisis driven by the proliferation of illicitly manufactured fentanyl and related analogs in the local drug supply. In \u003ci\u003eThe Best Place: Addiction, Intervention, and Living and Dying Young in Vancouver\u003c\/i\u003e, Danya Fast explores these politics of place from the perspectives of young people who use drugs. Those who are the subject of this book were in many ways relegated to the social, spatial, and economic margins of the city. Yet, they were also often at the very center of city life and state projects, including the project of protecting life in the context of the current overdose crisis.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Wow! A gripping ethnography of the everyday ecstatic emergency and boredom of methamphetamine, fentanyl and failed relationships that cuts short the lives of Canadian youth—often indigenous—desperately seeking community, meaning and survival. Documents the dysfunctional meshes of care\/jail\/gentrification\/predatory narcotics markets and human betrayals that betrays their persistent universally recognizable dreams\/hopes against all odds for a better futures that never arrives.\" -- Philippe Bourgois * author of In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio and coauthor of Righteous Dopefiend *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Best Place\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eoffers an analysis of Downtown Eastside Vancouver, British Columbia, a locale where young people's illicit drug use has received international attention. Fast has worked in this area for many, many years, developing long-term relationships with young drug users and health professionals. This is a collaboration that offers a model of multi-level analyses and showcases the hope of Fast's interlocutors for the future. Fast draws on \u003ci\u003etheir\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003evisions of possible futures, and on \u003ci\u003etheir\u003c\/i\u003e critiques of current approaches, articulated with those of healthcare professionals. This is a book many have been waiting for.\"  -- Dara Culhane * cofounder and cocurator for the Centre for Imaginative Ethnography *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e Foreword by Lenore Manderson \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Dramatis Personae\u003cbr\u003e Places \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Introduction \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART I: DREAMS OF PLACE \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Lee, the Best Place on Earth, 2009 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Jeff, Paradise, 2009 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Big-City Dreams \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Lula and Jeff, Paradise, 2012 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Senses of Place \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Lee, World City, 2009 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhere I’m Going\u003c\/i\u003e, Lee, 2011 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Jordan, Normal Places, 2012 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Danya and Nancy, the Field, 2010 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Lee, Not These Service Places, 2009 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Jordan, Normal People, 2008 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Frictions \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Danya, around Downtown, 2008 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Janet and the Lost Boys, Never Never Land, 2008 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Trajectories \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Carly and Connor, Family, 2009 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Geographies \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Patty and Joe, Home, 2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part II: SOMETHING \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Patty, Coast Salish Territories, 2009 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Vital Experimentation \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Shae, Lula, and Jeff, Lighthouse Shelter, 2009 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Momentum \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Laurie and Aaron, Trafalgar Hotel, 2010 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Moral Worlds \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Terry, Jail, 2011 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Carly and Connor, Apartment, 2013 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Stagnation \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Janet, Trafalgar Hotel, 2010 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Patty and Joe, Mackenzie Hotel, 2010 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Endless Business \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Terry, Field Office, 2012 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Lee, Mackenzie Hotel, 2012 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Reentering Never Never Land \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Jordan, Beachwood Hotel, 2013 74 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Shae, Mackenzie Hotel, 2009 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Disappearances \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Lee, Gone, 2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART III: LOST \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Patty, City of Glass, 2011 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Community Care \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Patty and Joe, Lakeshore Hotel, 2010 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Losing Everything \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Patty and Joe, St. Mary’s, 2012 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Boredom \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Aaron, Northwest Apartments, 2013  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e(No)Exit,\u003c\/i\u003e Shae, 2013  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Flashbacks and Futures \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Patty, Terminal City, 2013 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Dance of Death \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Patty and Joe, St. Mary’s, 2013 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhere We’ve Ended Up\u003c\/i\u003e, Patty and Joe, 2013 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Waiting \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Terry, St. Mary’s, 2014 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Flights \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Patty and Joe, Lakeshore Hotel, 2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART IV: NOWHERE \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Patty, Saltwater City, 2017 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Will to Intervene  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Shane, Passages, 2017 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Living on the Edge of Change \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Jessica, Horizons, 2018 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Filling the Hours \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Shane, Downtown, 2017 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Stalls and Dead Ends \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Lula, Wenonah House, 2016 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEverything We Need,\u003c\/i\u003e Carly and Connor, 2013 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e A Churn of Intervention \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Raymond, Downtown, 2017 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Colonial Present \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Aaron, Field Office, 2017 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Living with Death \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Lula and Jeff, Field Office, 2017 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Broken Promise Land \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Janet, Johnny, Rachel, and Gordo, Camp under the Tracks, 2017 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eExits,\u003c\/i\u003e Janet, 2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART V: EVERYWHERE \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Jordan, Rain City, 2016 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Laura, Field Office, 2017 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Shae\/Trix, Apartment, 2017 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Janet, Recovery House, 2018 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eExits,\u003c\/i\u003e Janet, 2018 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Terry, Psychiatric Ward, 2018 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Way Home,\u003c\/i\u003e Terry, 2011 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Laurie, Downtown, 2018 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Aaron, Beachwood Hotel, 2019 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Lula and Jeff, Greystone Hotel, 2019 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Dom, BC Children’s Hospital, 2020 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Carly and Connor, Field Office, 2018 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Joe, Field Office, 2018 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Patty, Everywhere, 2018 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhere We’ve Ended Up,\u003c\/i\u003e Patty and Joe, 2013 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Afterword \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default 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