Addiction Medicine Grand Rounds: Living and Dying Young in “The Best Place on Earth”: An Ethnography of Young People Who Use Drugs in Vancouver

The Yale Program in Addiction Medicine is pleased to welcome Danya Fast, PhD, as speaker for Addiction Medicine Grand Rounds on February 27, 2024.

This event will be held virtually via Zoom.

Title: Living and Dying Young in “The Best Place on Earth”: An Ethnography of Young People Who Use Drugs in Vancouver

Learning Objectives:

1. Describe how senses of place in the city of Vancouver and intensities like boredom and eventfulness can shape forms of life, death and harm among young people who use drugs;
2. Examine how forms of care, such as government-subsidized supportive housing and substance use treatment, can lead to senses of “getting lost” and “going nowhere” in the city, and impact drug use practices among young people
3. Identify some of the ongoing affects (felt intensities) and effects of colonialism in the city among Indigenous young people who use drugs

Addiction Medicine Grand Rounds are CME accredited. Each session will be assigned 1 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM.