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May-June 2019 : RECOVERY

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Ask us: Tell us ways to be kind to yourself?
Answers from The Pavement Magazine Facebook page
Keep it clean
Look after your veins by injecting safely, even on the street. Here are some tips from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine’s Magdalena Harris
Streets of Gold
Ian Kalman invites you to be interviewed for his book, Streets of Gold.
Summer safe
Drink water and make use of shade

News

Fitting in
It’s important to record the type of place that accepts everyone without judgment – and also because they seem to be dying out.
Line up

We Make Change Homelessness is a network of people who “believe homelessness is solvable”

NEWS IN BRIEF: May - June 2019
News in brief written by Jake Cudsi.
News Photostories: May - June 2019
Photostories from the Pavement team.
Understanding UC
In the last issue of the Pavement, the Glasgow News Group wrote about their trauma from being moved on to Universal Credit. This is the Department of Work and Pension’s advice for people who are homeless. It’s written by Will Quince MP, the Minister for Family Support, Housing & Child Maintenance at the DWP
We want the DWP to...
Here’s how the DWP responded to some of the Glasgow News Group’s demands


Features

Big red button
Recovery is the focus of this issue of the Pavement. Here Rob Edgar explains how he copes with feelings of contradiction and struggle


Chicken or egg?
Which comes first: homelessness or the addiction? Report by Sarah Hough
Escape plan
What we lose in the fire we find in the ashes, writes Mat Amp
Glasgow voices

Knowing you need help can be part of recovery. Interviews by Caroline Fairgrieve

The homeless film director
David Fussell talks about how he made Mystic Demon Killer and his hopes that it’ll become a cult classic. Interview by Jacqueline Messih and Judah Stephenson
The play's the thing
This interview with the Deputy Mayor of London, James Murray, was held at City Hall. Report by Ian Kalman


Opinion

Banter: No more quiet pints
No more quiet pints. Ruby’s tales of life off the drink
Tough times
Lawrence Blake is dealing with insecure housing and mental health problems

Obituaries

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Your voice

PTSD (to educate)

A poem by McGinlay

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