The Best Place : : Addiction, Intervention, and Living and Dying Young in Vancouver / / Danya Fast.

• VerfasserIn: Fast, Danya,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2023]; 2024
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Medical Anthropology
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (245 p.) :; 8 color photographs

In 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 The Best Place: Addiction, Intervention, and Living and Dying Young in Vancouver, 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- DRAMATIS PERSONAE -- PLACES -- INTRODUCTION -- Part 1 DREAMS OF PLACE -- Lee, the best place on earth, 2009 -- Jeff, paradise, 2009 -- Big-city dreams -- Lula and Jeff, paradise, 2012 -- Senses of place -- Lee, world city, 2009 -- Where i'm going, lee, 2011 -- Jordan, normal places, 2012 -- Danya and Nancy, the field, 2010 -- Lee, not these service places, 2009 -- Jordan, normal people, 2008 -- Frictions -- Danya, around downtown, 2008 -- Janet and the lost boys, never never land, 2008 -- Trajectories -- Carly and Connor, family, 2009 -- Geographies -- Patty and Joe, home, 2012 -- Part 2 SOMETHING -- Patty, coast Salish territories, 2009 -- Vital experimentation -- Shae, Lula, and Jeff, lighthouse shelter, 2009 -- Momentum -- Laurie and Aaron, Trafalgar hotel, 2010 -- Moral worlds -- Terry, jail, 2011 -- Carly and Connor, apartment, 2013 -- Stagnation -- Janet, Trafalgar hotel, 2010 -- Patty and Joe, Mackenzie hotel, 2010 -- Endless business -- Terry, field office, 2012 -- Lee, Mackenzie hotel, 2012 -- Reentering never never land -- Jordan, Beachwood hotel, 2013 -- Shae, Mackenzie hotel, 2009 -- Disappearances -- Lee, gone, 2015 -- Part 3 LOST -- Patty, city of glass, 2011 -- Community care -- Patty and Joe, Lakeshore hotel, 2010 -- Losing everything -- Patty and Joe, St. Mary's, 2012 -- Boredom -- Aaron, Northwest apartments, 2013 -- (No)Exit, Shae, 2013 -- Flashbacks and futures -- Patty, terminal city, 2013 -- The dance of death -- Patty and Joe, St. Mary's, 2013 -- Where we've ended up, Patty and Joe, 2013 -- Waiting -- Terry, St. Mary's, 2014 -- Flights -- Patty and Joe, Lakeshore hotel, 2014 -- Part 4 NOWHERE -- Patty, Saltwater city, 2017 -- The will to intervene -- Shane, passages, 2017 -- Living on the edge of change -- Jessica, horizons, 2018 -- Filling the hours -- Shane, downtown, 2017 -- Stalls and dead ends -- Lula, Wenonah house, 2016 -- Everything we need, Carly and Connor, 2013 -- A churn of intervention -- Raymond, downtown, 2017 -- The colonial present -- Aaron, field office, 2017 -- Living with death -- Lula and Jeff, field office, 2017 -- The broken promise land -- Janet, Johnny, Rachel, and Gordo, camp under the tracks, 2017 -- Exits, Janet, 2015 -- Part 5 EVERYWHERE -- Jordan, Rain city, 2016 -- Laura, field office, 2017 -- Shae/Trix, apartment, 2017 -- The way home, terry, 2011 -- Laurie, downtown, 2018 -- Aaron, Beachwood hotel, 2019 -- Lula and Jeff, Greystone hotel, 2019 -- Dom, Bc children's hospital, 2020 -- Carly and Connor, field office, 2018 -- Joe, field office, 2018 -- Patty, everywhere, 2018 -- Where we've ended up, Patty and Joe, 2013 -- AFTERWORD -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR