The Liverpool Exchange

In the 1980s, Liverpool was having what journalists called a heroin
epidemic. The chairman of a local organization where people would
go for drug counseling told a reporter, “We are on the brink of
complete catastrophe.” Then a small group of people decided to try
something. Maia Szalavitz’s book is Undoing Drugs: How Harm
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