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Research Behind the Headlines
Dr. Danya Fast’s forthcoming book from UBC Press, The Best Place : Addiction, Intervention, and Living and Dying Young in Vancouver, captures 15 years of fieldwork and interviews documenting the lives of Vancouver youth at the centre of a public health emergency.
Learn more about Dr. Fast’s work in cIRcle’s collection featuring more than a dozen open access peer-reviewed research articles and her 2013 dissertation, Senses of place among young people entrenched in a “local” drug scene : an urban ethnography.
Further Reading
A researcher chronicled the lives of Vancouver’s homeless youth. Then fentanyl arrived. CTV News. March 27th, 2024.
Young people at the centre of the toxic drug crisis. UBC News. February 24, 2024.
cIRcle Collection : BC Centre on Substance Use